Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston letter to the Chicago Tribune gives the following bright description of Dr. Holmes and the Medical Students. It says: "The most popular man in the Cedical School is Dr. Oliver wendell Holmes, though he is no longer an active member of the faculty. The genial "autocrat" cannot stand entirely aloof from his first love, and almost every month he pays a visit to the doctor mill on the Back Bay. Some of the younger professors think that Dr. Holmes is pretty far behind the times-"an old fogy, you know" but the boys have no thought for them when...
Senior (to freshman) : "I suppose you know we are not going to have chapel any longer." Fresh. : "Is that so? Won't that be nice! But why are they not going to have chapel any longer!" Senior (grinning): "Because it is long enough...
...schools belonging to the university wishes to play ball or row, the faculty have no right to say that he shall not. It is a matter for the students to decide whether there is any objection to a man's playing longer than four years. More, it seems to us to be a direct attack upon Harvard as a university. As such, it is right that all men connected with any department should have as much right to play on one of the teams as a man in the academical department...
...Resolved, That no inter-collegiate boat-race should be for a longer distance than three miles...
...Resolved, That no intercollegiate boat-race should be for a longer distance than three miles...