Word: longer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This or a similar programme, covering not longer than two days, would give the members of the graduating class time to entertain their guests more fittingly and to enjoy the exercises themselves as they have not been able to do for several years. It would heighten the enjoyment of a very large majority of the guests and inconvenience very few. Those visitors who live in the neighborhood of Boston could as easily come to Cambridge two days as one if they cared to attend both days. To those who come from a distance one day more or less would make...
...refitted and will not be ready for the crew until tomorrow. The stationary boat is to have level slides and hole pins and is to be rigged like the barge in which the crew rowed during the last week of practice on the Charles. To make room for the longer oars the zinc floor has been taken out of the tank. This will make a greater depth of water in both channels...
...seems hardly credible that it should be necessary to remind Harvard men that, being no longer under the enforced discipline of preparatory schools, they should see to it themselves that they lay aside all childishness and begin to conduct themselves as gentlemen. As it is thought that the students are of an age and temperament to look with respect, if not with admiration, upon the men who-so often scholars of more than local reputation-have been assigned for their instruction, the College has offered in its curriculum no special course in manners...
...further been urged by the committee of the Corporation that the entertainment of the Senior class should be extended over a longer time than it is at present; in other words that the spreads, class exercises, etc., which are now pressed into about 12 hours should be distributed over two or three days. To make such a scheme a success it is obvious that there must be some special exercises in which the class as a whole take part and which would form a central programme around which spreads and other private entertainments could group themselves. Many plans have been...
...death of Francis James Child the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has suffered as heavy a loss as it is possible for such a body to sustain. His term of service, extending over fifty years, was far longer than that of any surviving member of the board, and was marked by the most punctual performance of the duties incident to his position...