Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have a new floating boat-house much nearer the college than...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Gentlemen: No one can realise more fully than I that there is great difficulty in making really helpful criticisms of student's themes. At the same time I think that the instructors in English B might come a little nearer getting over this difficulty than they do. It would be less exasperating if the instructor would not say anything about a theme unless he had something to say. As it is, one very often finds a line or two of criticism so indefinite as to give one absolutely no idea whether the theme be poor. indifferent...
...great-at a reasonable price. A very small subscription from the men in college would amply cover all expense incurred throughout the entire winter. The advantages of the plan are too obvious to need discussion, and the universal desire expressed each year that we might have a skating pond nearer college than Fresh Pond, is a sufficient warrant for the undertaking of the plan. The proper organization to move in the matter is without doubt the athletic association. The officers of this society have always been prompt to respond to the expressed wishes of its members, and I am sure...
...years' stay at Cambridge there may be quite a number of his own class with whom he has not even a speaking acquaintance. This is altogether different from the fraternal spirit that used to pervade all of the classes at Harvard a generation or more ago, and is much nearer approximation to the conditions that obtain at English universities, where the friends that an undergraduates has are largely those whose acceptance he made at one or another of the great public schools. The conclusion that might be drawn from this change is that, so far as social confederations are concerned...
...Ghenna" - he should exercise his powers upon subjects less seductive, and harder to treat, perhaps, but affording greater opportunities for criticism, and less facility for masking bad work. It is easy to make a bad story about Antipodeans pass muster, whereas a faulty account of things nearer home stands abjectly and manifestly futile...