Word: farther
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boston and Maine railroad has also run special trains every year, but they have been for the most part made up of parlor cars chartered by private parties. The road is single track most of the way and is about twenty miles farther than the Boston and Albany...
...Harvard Graduates' Magazine for June is out. As frontispiece is a portrait of President Eliot, engraved by G. Kruell. The likeness is admirable. It is especially interesting in comparison with Mr. Eliot's class photograph, which is reproduced farther on in the number. The two are given in connection with a general review of President Eliot's administration of twenty-five years...
...motive of a drawing, for this is the part it has to play in architecture. It may be divided into two parts: ornament which is purely architectural, and ornament which is simply intended to be decorative. To this last named division belong all mouldings, panels and bas-reliefs. The farther one advances in art, the more the feels that architecture which is not dependent upon decorative ornament is far more serious and satisfying than that which relies upon decoration to produce the intended effect...
...purse strings as is exerted by the Promenade. It is a relief to find a paper which is willing for once to open its eyes to the fact that Harvard men are no worse money-spenders than many other college men. If papers would take one step farther they would see that the spirit of snobbishness, which people talk so much about in connection with Harvard, is a delusion. There is an aristocracy at Harvard, but it is for the most part an aristocracy of character and personality, not of wealth. In the long run and in the majority...
...Journalism, Bohemia, the Bohemians and the pseudo-Bohemians," was the subject of Mr. Copeland's lecture in Sever 11 last night, but it would be impossible to reproduce the whole of the entertaining talk in which he led his hearers now close to his main theme and again farther from it into interesting generalities...