Word: greater
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College Conference meetings has been to bring the students into closer relationship and greater harmony of feeling with the college government, and to discuss in an informal and kindly way, questions bearing on the life of the University and of the students. The usefulness of these meetings was made more than evident on Tuesday evening...
...particularly in the college press, as to put in an unfair light the liberal policy of our university. It has suddenly become the fashion for many other colleges to wash their hands of Harvard's system and to put themselves on record as supporters to a greater or less extent of the conservative spirit. It is, of course, obvious that a blind liberal policy is more dangerous than a blind conservative policy, but that critic of the Harvard system who designates it as blindly liberal shows immediately his in competency as a judge...
This, and much more too technical to mention, has been the work of the Musem the past year. It is unfortunate that the greater part is of too technical a nature to prove attractive to the average student...
...seems to us it has adopted a very poor means for carrying out its plan. Now, there is a double incentive for daring boys to skate on the Pond in defiance of the policeman who patrols the shore; and the chance of his getting on the ice is much greater than if he were allowed to skate on the strong ice in plain sight of the policeman without fear of interruption. Besides, many men wait till evening, when they can enjoy the fine ice on Fresh Pond uninterrupted rather than struggle over the rough ice on the Glacial...
...method, a candidate may make a choice and pursue a course of preparatory study congenial to his tastes, and one which will be in a line with the preparation at college for the work which he contemplates after graduation. Latin, Greek and mathematics still have much greater weight in the examinations than any of the other studies, but of the new advanced studies that may be offered in place of the advanced courses in Greek or Latin, in 1888 French was offered by 61 candidates, German by 43, experimental physics by 9, and experimental chemistry by 22. These figures show...