Word: longer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Gaze's Educational Excursions to Europe next summer offer special attractions to individuals or small parties visiting any part of Europe on longer or shorter tours. Send for information to Alfred Bunker, Boston (Highlands), Mass...
...lost one of its chief strongholds in the quinquennial catalogue, and to replace it by English in the Commencement exercises would be a consistent and welcome change. The college is growing more and more modern in spirit. It long ago dropped Latin as a prescribed study, and no longer requires it even for admission. It seems almost an absurdity to hold the graduating exercises in a language the students are no longer obliged to know, and which the audience certainly do not understand readily. There is no apparent reason except custom for retaining Latin in the Commencement exercises...
...annual report Professor Chaplin, dean of the Lawrence Scientific School, states that the whole number of students connected with the school during 1889-90 was thirty-six, of whom seven were regular students. One received the degree of B. S. at Commencement. Latin is no longer required for admission and the prescribed courses have been extended by adding a course in electrical engineering and by dividing the course in natural history into two courses, one in geology and one in biology...
Problems of charity belong to large cities. In small towns cases of want are helped by the neighbors because all the people know each other. As the town grows into a large city people are no longer neighbors to each other; poverty, want and crime segregate to the lower and more unhealthy portions of the city and it becomes necessary in order to relieve distress to establish relief societies. These societies simply give alms to the people who apply for them and concern themselves very little in any other means of helping the poor. In the last report...
...stock of books and stationery is poorer now than for several years; and in the former department I can certainly add my voice to the general complaint of poor service. There was no attempt to make extra provision for the holiday season just past. The Society will no longer take orders for wood of good enough quality to be worth burning. The old discount on coal, and on the laundry also, is gone. The work done by the latter is disgraceful. For each one of these back slidings there is probably an excuse but there can be none...