Word: farther
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...would be carried four hundred and forty feet ahead by the difference in current. If the five outside of the current could make up the difference and keep even with the others until the end of the race, they would have had to row a quarter of a mile farther than the other crews. There was certainly that difference between the currents where Harvard and Yale started and where Cornell was placed last year...
...Williams, and the "Aggies" were lagging behind it. A glance from a point near the Dartmouth boat-house showed that the Dartmouths had crept up into the front line near the western shore, and that Cornell and Bowdoin were making ineffectual spurts to catch the leading boats. A little farther along Amherst also quickened, but failed to catch Harvard and Yale. At the end of a mile and a half it was plain that the race was between Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, Dartmouth, and Amherst. Harvard could be plainly seen leading all the boats, with the next four nearly neck...
Indeed, some who regard themselves as his intimates, because they have once ventured farther toward him than others across the varied intricacies of his undulating extremities, report that they, on that occasion, heard the following remarkable dialogue. One of the party makes no secret of the fact that what he then heard reminded him of a passage in Heine's "Atta Troll...
...spirit of progress, inaugurated by them, should find some worthy champions in those yet to come. Their active connection with the Institute is soon to cease, and the responsibility will rest with their successors taking advantage of the favoring circumstances under which they receive it to advance it even farther, and make it truly worthy of its ancient name and reputation...
...very quiet, unobtrusive fellow, who, while at Cambridge, spends his nights in grinding, and during the day varies the monotony of attending recitations by the same delectable employment. If this be the talk of quiet undergraduates, it is reasonable to suppose that the more demonstrative take a step farther, which brings them at once to the point reached long ago by the author of "Fair Harvard." What wonder that, beyond the vicinity of Boston, a college room is never thought of without the accessories of a cloud of tobacco-smoke, the remains of a dozen of champagne, and a crowd...