Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...library authorities have determined to permit no longer the use of dictionaries at the tables for assistance in translating. These are put on the delivery room shelves with other reference books, for such use as can be made at the shelves. The authorities intend also to prevent the continuous use of the manuals and texts in study, and in the class rooms...
...most that Lord Elgin was allowed to do thus far was to make drawings of these works of art and this was permitted only on the receipt of five guineas from each artist daily. In 1801 Abercrombie defeated the French and the fate of the Parthenon no longer rested on the result of the campaign in Egypt. At this time, De Hunt, chaplain of the British embassy to Constantinople, conceived the idea of moving the marbles themselves to London and finally in 1801, after some reluctance, gained permission from the governor...
...away and the clay carted to the south side, where it has been used to fill up an old hollow. The hollow corner at the northeast has also been filled in, and space sufficient for three or four new football fields has thus been gained. It will be no longer possible for men from other colleges to watch the Princeton team at practice, for the parts of the grounds where there was formerly no fence have been surrounded by a stone wall on the top of which is built a wooden fence eight feet high. The entire field now measures...
...complaints of slugging, unfair play, and Ames resound and increase with Princeton's score, till at the close Princeton is pronounced a brute, a knave, a liar. The Princeton players were, heavier men and older men than Harvard and could stand a rough game of give-and-take longer. Was this Princeton's fault? Then, too, there is no dispute that they played a better game. But the cry of brutes-based on Donnelly's and general rough play; knave-based on the calling to Princeton of other than regular students; and of liar-based on the conduct of playing...
...believe, on a real desire for purity in college athletics. In our efforts to accomplish this end, Princeton has thus far refused to co operate. We have withdrawn from the league not for the purpose of holding Princeton up to public scorn, but because we are unwilling to compete longer under the disadvantages which a consistent effort at reform forces upon...