Word: longer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...depended upon at either of these places. Trudeau, pitcher on last year's nine, can be relied upon to do good work this season, if any one is found who can give him proper support behind the bat. Practice will be continued in the cage a few days longer and then if the weather is favorable the men will go out to the Field where much needed batting practice can be commenced...
...Dean of the College in his annual report mentioned gradual improvement in the class of special students which has taken place within the last few years. He notes that this class of students now do as honest work as the members of any College class, and need no longer be looked on with suspicion. "The body of special students," The Dean says, "may already point out among its members men worth all the labor expended on them...
...University. For though the same ones may not be troubled by the present arrangement every week, in the course of a year there would be a considerable total addition to the convenience of students here by having either the reading room or the museum open half an hour longer on Sunday than at present...
...reasonable one. There are naturally many objections to having the Library open during the entire evening on Sunday, and doubtless this is not necessary, but there seems to be no good reason why the reading room should not be kept open for a half hour or even an hour longer than it now is, and if, as our correspondent argues, this would benefit a large number of students it seems but right that the change should be made. The new arrangement would only require the services of one man in the Library for a short time longer each week...
...answer to the third question will require more time: How was such a production of the precious metals economically possible under the law controlling the value of money? That law is: The more freely gold, say, in any given interval of time, is produced, and the longer that production is carried on, the less, other things being equal, becomes the motive to continued production on the same scale. The new metal going into circulation drowns the mines, or all but the mines. Such is the economic condition under which the production of the precious metals is carried...