Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...claimed the number of students has been gradually diminishing, not from the causes usually given - the failure of the labor system, the absence abroad of President White, co-education, attacks of the religious press and the raising of the standard in studies - but because the university no longer represented clearly-defined ideas about which students could cluster. The character of Cornell's students had accordingly deteriorated; they were not now such men of force as formerly, only one of the leading colleges being as low as, or inferior to it in this regard. The attitude of the faculty toward...
...authorship of the very clever novel, "Guerndale," which appeared last fall, has become an open secret at last, and although no authoritative announcement has been made concerning it, there is no longer any doubt that its author, who masqueraded under the nom de plume of "J. S. of Dale," is Mr. Frederick J. Stimson, a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1876 and now a practising lawyer in this city. "Sly Ballades in Harvard China," also published anonymously last year, turns out to be by Mr. E. S. Martin, the editor of Life, to which position the cleverness...
...holder or holders of a court leave the university or do not wish to remain longer holders of the court, the remaining holder or holders can retain the court provided they immediately fill up the number of holders to at least four. This is, however, subject to the limitations of rule...
...prepaid by the players. By this plan the regular players can play in their favorite courts, which are theirs for certain prescribed hours selected by themselves, and the casual or infrequent players may have a chance to play a pleasant game without fear of trespassing. Then we would no longer see the stupid sight of acres of courts empty, but forbidden to a large number of men needing and anxious for the exercise and amusement which these courts might afford them...
...appears that the bone of contention was the inequality of the length of the boats. Harvard's was about five feet longer than Yale's. A start with the bows on a level would cause each Yale man to be behind the corresponding Harvard man, causing the former much inconvenience, while if at the start, the sterns were even, and the decision rendered according to the bows, Yale's course would be diminished five feet. - [Deleware College Review...