Word: longer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...phenomena by which we are to explain man's ideas about himself? Certainly not in language alone, as Max Muller would hold, but in rites, usages, and customs. But here lies the difficulty, that these depend upon the modes of thought, analogies and impressions which we can no longer share...
...after passing the parallel of forty, and arrives at that shall I call it Sheltered Haven of Middle Age, when, in proportion as one is more careful of the conclusions he arrives at, he is less zealous in his desire that all mankind should agree with him. Moreover, the longer one studies, the more thoroughly does one persuade himself that till he knows everything, he knows nothing,-that after twenty years of criticism one is still a mere weigher and gauger:-skilled only to judge what he may chance to have been in the habit of inspecting...
Today ninety-four bids her social goodbye to Harvard. It will bring unfeigned regret to hundreds of the students who are to remain longer in the University. Ninety-four has many members who, by reason of their stalwart manliness and refined gentlemanliness, it has been an education to know...
...shell, which is being built for the 'varsity crew by Davy, is nearly completed. It will be lighter, longer, narrower and more shallow than any shell Harvard has ever before had, and will in this way be better adapted to Harvard's light crew...
...baseball men would have a very strong point if the 'varsity nine here were to be confined indoors two weeks longer each year than their chief rivals, but on this point testimony differs. Holmes Field can never be played upon until late, but the case with Soldiers Field will probably be different. We have the word of a member of the athletic committee, the chairman of the sub-committee on grounds and buildings, that he personally visited Soldiers and Jarvis Fields this year three weeks before the April recess, examined both, and was of opinion that Soldiers was the drier...