Word: greater
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rowing since the days when the races were rowed on Lake Quinsigamond or Lake Saratoga, and when Harvard and Yale were willing to meet the crews of the smaller colleges seem to have been following a logical development. The ambition to win has resulted in a greater mastery of watermanship, and the colleges which have had less material to draw from, or which have allowed their interests to flag, have been left behind, so that Harvard and Yale have been justified in their exclusiveness. Of these two colleges, neither can claim superiority on the water, and neither can be ashamed...
...prevented from playing in the Yale game we strongly urge the nine not to let this misfortune, occuring at so critical a time, discourage them. Luck seems against us; if we can win in the face of ill-fortune, the credit of victory will be the greater...
...work and to submit to the necessary discipline. Besides the large number of tenors and bases, the club will need a yodler and a whistler. The number of men who attended the trial of candidates last October was smaller than usual; it would be very unfortunate if with greater needs than usual the Club should find itself hampered next fall by a limited range of choice occasioned by lack of interest on the part of the musical men of the University...
...course in charge during the past two years has succeeded in obtaining excellent results. Now that the subject is to be given its proper place in the elective system, the scope of the course will doubtless be much broader, and the benefit derived from it much greater than has been possible under the limitations heretofore existing...
...watchmen while making their rounds should see once every night that doors in the dormitories are closed and fastened. This would be a means of security, especially in Weld and Matthews, where there are double doors, and where, consequently, the liability to carelessness in having the doors unlocked is greater than elsewhere. A repetition of the recent robbery must be avoided even if double care should be necessary...