Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Patented Dec. 20, 1881. Our Pressed Cigarettes smoke longer and cooler than round-made cigarettes...
...during the year, have not been able to finish the work. If they could have a week to put entirely on the laboratory work they would probably be able to finish it up. Of course, this would be extra trouble to the instructors and would keep Cleary at work longer. But I think that the benefit the many might receive would make up for the inconvenience of the few; or, if the college cannot afford it, a small sum might be charged those who wish to use the laboratory during the first week of the examination period...
...shelves and fail to return them, but more, probably, to the laxity with which the laws of the library are observed. There are many persons who take advantage of the privilege of keeping reference books and periodicals over night, and then turn them to private purposes for a longer time. Of course the library officials are supposed to put a check upon all such practices, but we know, unfortunately, how successful they are, and frequently try for days to catch a glimpse of the last Atlantic or Century...
...doubtless true that women of the present time do not do as much physical work as women formerly did, but you should remember that society, like language, abandons only that for which it has no longer use. The natural progress of society has made it desirable for women to devote more attention to the cultivation of her intellect and of those talents which make her what we broadly term "accomplished...
...that the evenings are growing longer, it is to be hoped we shall hear more of the Glee Club. But two concerts are given annually, one in the fall and one in the spring, which together with the informal concerts in the yard, are the only opportunities within our reach for showing our appreciation of the Glee Club's work. They are said occasionally to visit neighboring town in conjunction with the Pierian Sodality to give concerts, but never sing in Boston or other places accessible to the mass of students. At other colleges the glee clubs are frequently heard...