Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Committee: First, the number of championship games to be played by each college will not, as was feared, be restricted. It was thought advisable to leave that to be determined by the students, provided, of course, that the number of games arranged does not require an absence from town longer than that permitted by the athletic regulations. Secondly, the committee were unanimous in their purpose to get rid of the professional element...
...tendency may be for those who are training to be investigators, there can be no question that it is lamentable for a young man to begin life without enthusiasm. 6. The system of athletics, by its intercollegiate contests, brings the students into a wider world. They are no longer "home-keeping youths," "with homely wits." They measure themselves by other standards than those they find in the limits of their own campus...
...tell much of the habits of a man by looking at his books and seeing how be treats them. To students, of all men, the care of books is interesting. To some men, the books become more valuable the longer they are used, to others, their text books are only necessary evils for which they care nothing when their examinations are passed. The first will be glad of a few suggestions which will enable them to preserve their friendly volumes through long grinds. The fingers should not be wet to turn the leaves, nor should the corners be turned down...
...good serviceable cover of cambric is very good for keeping the outside neat and clean while in active use; but when no longer used this cover should be removed. A shelf full of books covered with cloth or paper is dull and monotonous. People do not care to look at a case of books with such an unattractive dress and as Poole says, "books lose their individuality by being covered." these latter suggestions apply more to the care of numbers of books together. In that connection it has been said that "you should never attempt to classify books on your...
...with any force to England, with how much greater force do they apply to America? And it is to her universities that America should look for the spread of "sweetness and light." Harvard should be and has been the principal seat of culture of this country, but how much longer will she remain so if she throws aside the study of the language and customs of the people who were "the great exponents of humanity's bent for sweetness and light, of its perception that the truth of things must beat the same time beauty." To quote a little more...