Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...commenting on undergraduate life at Oxford, says : The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford has had to inflict a fine of ten pounds on some undergraduates who had been guilty of an offence which used once to be described as "dusting a bobby," but which in these days is no longer spoken of in jocular terms. A spiteful assault committed by several young men upon a solitary policeman is, in fact, not a funny thing at all, but it is a comfort to observe that such unmanly freaks have grown comparatively rare of late years...
Professor Sophocles is still dangerously ill and is not expected to live much longer...
...oars have arrived for the university crew. They are eight inches longer than those of last year, and are straight spoon oars. The Davis oar has been discarded. [ News...
...first three-quarters the ball was forced well up to our poles, when suddenly Peabody slipped out around the Yale rushers and after a very brilliant run deposited the ball clear in the centre of the field by a long punt. Our line was no longer threatened and time was called with the score 5 to 0 in our favor...
...those governing the nines of the other colleges. This means that the Committee will make an effort to secure the cooperation of the other colleges in anti-professional measures,-and in this they have our best wishes,-but that if they fail in this, our nine will no longer be handicapped as it was. In such action as this, we are sure, every student will heartily support the Committee...