Word: greater
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Several times during the Newark game yesterday afternoon, the spectators-or rather a small number of the spectators-hooted at and applauded poor playing by the visiting team. It is to be hoped that the greater part of the offenders were not students; but unfortunately some of them wore blazers and a part of the blame therefore falls upon the college...
...secretaries, spoke at the meeting of the Y. M. C. A. last evening on the summer school for Bible Study at Northfield. The Association desires to send a large Harvard delegation to Northfield this summer, and invited Mr. Sanders to talk to the members in order to arouse a greater interest in the matter. Yale and Cornell will be represented by delegations of between fifty and seventy-five men, and other colleges in proportion. The advantage to be derived from the intimate association with Christian men from colleges all over this country and from England which...
...stories have weird and harrowing touches. Both are well written, but "The Last Waltz of the late Joseph Merrihew," has a greater claim to originality. The plot of this and the dialogue are both effective. The last paragraph, however, is not necessary for completeness, and might better have been omitted, as it tends to an anticlimax...
...team of six men from the Harvard Shooting Club, shot against the Country club team at Brookline Saturday afternoon, winning by two birds. The match was very close throughout, the teams being tied four or five times, and it was only by steady, hard shooting that Harvard won. The greater part of the match was shot in the rain, which, with a slight mist, and a dark background, made the birds hard to see. The Harvard team shot steadily, and although none of the individual scores were as high as one made by a member of the Country club team...
This work done by graduates of other colleges who can well compare Harvard with other institutions, is worthy of great praise. Their report shows an opinion of higher moral tone, of greater earnestness for work, of superior advantages for this work at Harvard, than is possessed by any college or university in the country. They tell what those who have investigated the matter know to be true without the shadow of doubt, but the more we can emphaslze these facts and present Harvard in her true light, the better, and surely this report speaks with strong emphasis...