Word: longer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which no student can exceed except for severe sickness. Other institutions have still different plans. At Yale, for instance, a "new system of cuts" has been tried in the freshman class and will probably be adopted for all classes in the future. According to this system no absence of longer than a week is allowed except for sickness or some circumstance of equal urgency. No absence at all of less than a week is excused, "it being considered that any illness of shorter duration is not of sufficient consequence to warrant absence from the class room...
...presented at the Boston Theatre, and the company besides being a large one includes many well known players. Prominent among them are: Chas. Stanley, Geo. Schiller, J. Aldrich Libby, Belle Archer, Clarisse Agnew, and fifty other pretty girls with attractive faces. The engagement is limited to only three weeks longer, and a highly successful engagement is more than assured...
...many Seniors, and, it would seem, of most graduates. Out of nine alumni recently consulted on this question,- of the classes of '41, '46, '50, '61, '64, '68, '81, '83, and '84,- only two favored the proposed change; the rest were unanimous in their belief that a longer celebration than has hitherto been customary would inevitably be more elaborate, more expensive, and, in general, such that the poor man would be sharply divided from the rich; and Class Day would be no longer the dear and beautiful festival which it has been for more than fifty years...
...CREW.- Following men be dressed to row at 3.50. Dobyns, K. Adams, Hurley, Marvin, Shiefe, Kinnicutt, Warner, Flershem, McBurney, Barnes, Butler, Barges, Irving, Wadsworth, Riggs, Brent, J. Adams, Robinson, Sayre, Rice, Hennen, Gould, Sanborn, Swan. Men whose names and not down need not train any longer...
...Mott Haven team would suffer greatly. A good cinder track can be built and put into good condition, under the most favorable circumstances, in not less than two or three years. On the soggy, infirm ground of Soldiers Field it would take longer. Some of the track athletic authorities, indeed, believe that an even, smooth and firm track could never be built and kept in condition...