Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...witness the result of over two months' work. The excitement usually attending the event will probably not be as great as that of previous years because the struggle will not be as close. The seniors are regarded as having the best stroke and the advantages of longer training and more experience. The juniors are in a dilemma, their stroke, Mr. Perin, having been ill. Yet their strength, as a crew, is said by many to be the greatest. For the sophomores little can be predicted. They possess strength and weight, but their form is poor. Much improvement, however, has been...
...grandeur of a school designed for the student of the law. But in his desire to make the outside imposing he has not neglected the convenience and comfort of those who are to use it, so that after the 1st of September, 1883, the Harvard law student will no longer be obliged to point out to the visitor the diminutive Dane Hall as the law school of America's largest university...
...experience I cannot describe to you the amount of expression a woman can put into her elbow and fore-arm; she begins by leaning over and making a commonplace remark and then dodges back seemingly shocked that she has touched your sleeve; next time she stays a little longer, and if you remain perfectly quiet presses your arm a bit, and if you remain passive she gradually becomes confidential and allows you to support her arm and shoulder and then half her weight, and finally your arm and her shoulder and elbow become so well acquainted that they exchange frequent...
...becoming quite evident that if the Harvard faculty is to retain longer any title to the description of it given by a well-known man of letters, as "the best body of teachers in the United States," some decisive measures must be taken to insure the continued excellency of its teaching. With so many of its most efficient members absent from duty next year, with the present vacancies that exist in several most important positions still unfilled, and the probability of one or more vacancies to come, and finally with a teaching force diminished and otherwise restricted on account...
...freshmen awoke to a fuller realization of the need of their improvement in ball playing before they undertake to cope with the Harvard freshmen. Surely they cannot desire to break the long series of Yale's triumphs in these contests, nor yet can they afford to be still longer debarred from the fence. They must also know that the whole college watch the result of this game with interest. By it, we are able to judge of the hopes of the university for the future, for it is partly with their men that the university must ere long be made...