Word: older
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...grows older and cooler does he see things in their true relation to each other...
...willing to let their college work go in order that they may secure places on 'varsity teams. They themselves cannot make rules which shall check their ardor and the athletic contests are so fascinating that the students have no mind to move against them; it is well, then, that older heads have interfered, with a set of rules which will bring athletics down to their proper level. The sooner the students learn that athletics are not the chief aim of the University and that the University is not small or great as it loses or wins athletic contests, the sooner...
...chief promoters have been for the most part Harvard professors and their wives; the influences which have contributed to its dignity and high character have been influences which have helped Harvard to its greatness. The growth of the younger institution has thus been largely fostered and directed by the older, and nothing could be more natural than the adoption of the younger by the older...
...elaborate literary finish. Francis Parkman was the forerunner of a school by which historical integrity is regarded as absolutely necessary. He showed that it is possible to combine honesty of citation with good literary style, and his narratives so impressed their own force that they never, like the older histories, needed platitudes and generalizations to point the moral. They are picturesque while they are invariably faithful to fact...
...report is naturally of greater general interest. It shows the usual increase in almost every department, the attendance during the year amounting to 263 as against 241 the year previous. The instruction for these young women was furnished by seventy-five professors and instructors of Harvard College, the older members of the Harvard faculty being well represented among them...