Word: longer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...step in order to spend more time upon the duties of his Professorship. Two years ago he determined to give up his Deanship, but was induced to delay his resignation until this year so that the new system might be got well under way. He has held the office longer than any other man. If the man who is chosen to fill the office proves to be so fully in sympathy with the students as Professor Smith has been, the undergraduates may consider themselves very well...
...very near at hand when it will be impossible for the library, without a material increase of working capital, to perform its functions as successfully as heretofore. The experience of the past year has only served to demonstrate more clearly, if that were possible, the impracticability of maintaining much longer the efficiency of the library without a new reading room. The more immediate needs of the students in this respect are as well understood as repetition can make them: perhaps it is not so generally known that more room for shelving books is imperatively required unless expedients directly tending...
Chapel attendance is no longer compulsory at Columbia...
...year, probably for the advantage of the society. At the same time it seems to have an objection: It deprives the Phi Beta Kappa of the distinction which it might well have among Harvard societies of being a sure reward for faithful and persevering work. It will be no longer be possible to conquer one's way into the fraternity. The proportion of unsuitable men chosen under the regulation of rank would undoubtedly be small at any rate and their effect would be null in the society, which even now includes in its graduate body more than one man, chosen...
...same zeal. They appear to be in a sort of lethargic condition, unable to express themselves except on some occasion of unusual moment. They seem to imagine that all personal duty toward the University ceased with the hour in which they got their degrees, and that they are no longer called upon to give opinions on matters of college policy-they even allow politics to influence their choice of University officers. It is not the right state of affairs. Our graduates about Boston ought to be more united than the graduates of any other college, and ought to express their...