Word: longer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...their cap and gown. As might be expected, there is a large portion of the class which has not yet taken the trouble to go around to the Co-operative to be measured. This set of men who always put such matters off till the last minute, sometimes longer, cause more inconvenience than they imagine. The Class Day Committee has its hands full of other things, and ought to be freed from the worry of seeing that everyone is measured for his gown on time. Then too a consideration of the press of work which the eleventh hour...
...fear, they would become aware that Christ's presence was before them and would glorify God in His servant.' There can be no better words to describe, the power of Newman's own personality over the generation which loved him and mourns for him. True, we can no longer cry Credo in Newmanum. We cannot take his words as an Evangel. In dogmatic theology and in philosophy we must account him a reactionary force. But in the moral world he will ever be to us a revelation of the beauty of holiness. There, where, to quote Professor Royce, the intelligent...
...Bourgeois Gentilhomme" as produced this year, will omit the greater part of the ballet, and some of the longer and more uninteresting passages. The singing will probably be done by a quartet from the Glee Club, as well as the solos. The final decision as to the make-up of the cast will not be made until next week...
...editorials, the most important is the one. which, apropos of the system proposed for Chicago University, suggests the advisability of condensing the work of some of our longer courses into a shorter time, so that to prevent some of "the reckless scattering of energy which is one of the noticeable things in our present system." It is worth the consideration of college men who are interested in this subject to think the matter over carefully, and then, if they think it worth while, to agitate it energetically...
...read from morning to night, it would be impossible to cover all that is interesting. The Edinburch Review and London Quarterly are the two great sources of informatory literature in England. Next to these comes the long list of short books, one-volume books, epitomes and analyses of longer books. They take it for granted that everyone is in a hurry and state a mass of facts which it is almost impossible to remember. Therefore, such books are dangerous. What is easily gained is easily lost. It is the time spent over a book which gives one a lasting familiarity...