Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...turned to any part of the heavens. The main building, situated at the east end of the tower, is 43x27, and 25 feet high. The roof is flat and is reached by a stair case which leads also to the tower. The building contains one large and two small rooms for a library and other uses, a photographic room, and apartments for clocks and minor instruments. The whole structure is substantially made of brick and stone and is not only well adapted to its purposes but is well proportioned and handsome...
Cornell in her management of football has inaugurated a plan entirely different from that pursued in the other branches of athletics. Whereas base ball, rowing, and track athletics are directly controlled by managers, elected by directors appointed by each class, football is governed entirely by a small society called the Cornell Foot Ball Association...
...guided the destinies of the Empire, and raised it from the position of an unimportant state to be one of the chief countries of the world. Mr. Bates also spoke of the incongruous elements of the people in Brazil, and of the vast territory to be governed by so small a population...
...closed the debate for the affirmative. The outbreak, he said, was not against Dom Pedro, but against the succession of his son-in-law, the Count D'Eu. The diversity of population in Brazil is not greater than in the United States The United States, too, had a small population and a large territory at the beginning of the government. The Spanish Americans have proved by their commerce that they can make a republic successful. All the good that the emperor has done has been under a government practically republican...
...great interest. He hoped that the students would individually do all in their power to correct these impressions of Harvard. Rev. Phillips Brooks then addressed the meeting at length. He dwelt upon the difficulty which a university offers of forming large circles of acquaintances; men tend to collect into small groups and there by to live narrow lives destroying the great democratic spirit which ought to exist. It keeps what is good in men where its influence cannot be felt and makes it impossible to approach what is bad. He urged men not to allow themselves to get bound...