Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sixty-two men in the senior class at Exeter, all but six will enter some college at the end of the current year. Twenty-six will come to Harvard, fourteen will go to Yale, four will go to Technology, two to Princeton, and the rest to the smaller colleges...
...fifty-six feet. The dimensions of the west stack are forty-seven feet by forty-four feet, with a capacity of two-hundred and fifty-four thousand volumes. The south stack is forty-two by forty-three feet and has six floors; the book-capacity is a good deal smaller than that of the west stack-it is one hundred and fifty thousand volumes-owing to encroachments by the reading room. Both stacks have a large number of large bay windows, furnishing excellent reading alcoves for special study. The general reading-room is one hundred and twenty-six feet...
...modern languages, and a higher proficiency in those branches also will probably be required. This method of elevating and rendering uniform the standard of college admissions is likely to be introduced in all the States of the Union. It would not only remove the embarrassment which many of our smaller colleges feel in receiving students inadequately prepared, and almost necessarily relaxing the course to meet this deficiency of training, but it would increase the efficiency and value of the fitting schools...
...contrary any unbiased observer will admit without hesitation that in no college in America are the students more gentlemanly than here. Nowhere do they preserve better order among themselves than here; nowhere are hazing and rowdy-like amusements frowned on as here, and nowhere is the "fast set" smaller in proportion. People who have lived in other college towns will admit that no where are the students on better terms with the inhabitants than here...
...train will leave New York at 12 o'clock arriving at Princeton at 2, and returning at 5 p. m. The 9 o'clock express from New York, will also stop at Princeton. The game is to be advertised in New York, Newark, New Brunswick. Philadelphia, and many other smaller cities...