Word: newer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have excited of late years an interest formerly unknown. The older buildings at Harvard and Yale have suffered from the existence of defects which have been remedied as far as possible, although the perfect ventilation of recitation rooms remains in some of these structures an unsolved problem. But the newer buildings at these colleges and at Columbia embody the application of the best scientific knowledge to the securing of air, light, and satisfactory drainage. - [N. Y. Tribune...
...remarked, that includes Harvard's ideal of an American university. Towards the realization of such a plan she has already advanced a long way. In many respects her position at present is one of transition; her course but marks the change from the older to the newer methods of instruction - from college to university life...
...game ranks next to base ball and football. We do not understand how this argument is powerful, except in showing that Lacrosse has had the opportunity to gain a firm foothold in College, but has failed, and has in fact been eclipsed by cricket, though the latter is the newer sport. Had Lacrosse been able to obtain a high position in the estimation of our students, by common consent it would have had a field allotted to its use, and would have received pecuniary support, which is the willing and necessary accompaniment of a popular sport. The opponent of tennis...
...late, in the way of contributed articles. Its editorial articles have always been well written. We cannot say so much for the poetry, from which its columns are however, mainly free; but the Nassau Lit. publishes verses execrably and intolerably bad . . . The 'Varsity, of Toronto, is one of our newer papers; and, if it shows no traces of youthful faults, certainly is free from the weaknesses of age. . . Of the Argus (Wesleyan), we say nothing, because, as of the Trinity Tablet, there is nothing to say, good...
...With newer grace is glorified...