Word: weightier
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...getting a room. This truth is unavoidable but the additional unfairness of giving the subfreshmen equal chances with the senior can and ought to be avoided. It is also too evident to need statement that a man who has been in college two or three years has a weightier claim to getting into a college building than the man who just comes here. It would be a very simple matter to arrange a plan by which preference would be given to seniority in college standing, so that the bursar's hat would become less like the well into which like...
...weightier far than any Greek...