Word: newer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spring. The sharp corners of the running track in the gymnasium do not allow very fast work, but every day the spinters cover three or four laps at a good rate of speed. The distance men run further and slower; quite fast enough, however, for some of the newer candidates. Lately the track on Holmes field has been covered with a smooth coating of ice, and on mid-days the runners with their spiked shoes have found it a good place to practice. Good time has been made in the 100-yard dash on this ice-track...
...work, it would have been better for us. As the matter is, the paper set for us was so hard that many of us are totally discouraged, and hardly dare to continue our grinding. It really seems as if the instructors had no consideration for the feelings of the newer members of our university. Let us hope that the other examinations will be easier...
...rate before 1865, but the particular states afforded many instances of narrowed legislative competency. Some states, e. g. Lomsiana, South Carolina, Georgia, have had as many as five constitutions. Contrary to our experience of corporate bodies, in whose charters general wording leaves room for the framing of byelaws, the newer American constitutions embody much criminal, family and police law. Such constitutions frequently need amending...
...that such a historic old hall should be suffered to stand useless and decaying when so many men would be glad to room in it for the sake of its associations? There is an indescribable charm about the rooms of Holworthy, Stoughton and Hollis, that is lacking in the newer buildings. Why then should not Massachusetts be restored that some of us may have an opportunity to pass a few years of college life in one of the cheery, low-coiled rooms, with small windows and deep, comfortable window seats, which at present are in such demand in Holworthy...
...should be. The fact that certain subjects were so sadly neglected at most schools rendered it the more desirable that their sons should have the opportunity of learning those subjects somewhat later in life. Hence he congratulated the city of Bristol that they possessed a college which cultivated the newer without neglecting the older subjects...