Word: larger
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Senior clubs, namely, the Pi Eta, the D. U., and the Hasty Pudding, to make a combination and to arrange a slate satisfactory to themselves, and regardless of the rest. The members of these three clubs were practically pledged to vote for that slate, so making a solid body larger than any other that could easily be formed. In this way they were able to elect their own candidates, even though they might not have been the choice of the majority...
...gain of about $1000 over the previous year. In addition to supporting the other branches of athletics, the management has been enabled to expend over $13,000 on permanent betterments and improvements, as against $10,000 last year. The expenses of the boat clubs have been much larger than in former years, owing to the cost of keeping more men in training, but, as the membership has increased, the deficit is about the same...
...increase in registration this fall is very marked, each of the three classes being larger than in any previous year. Of the third year class 21 percent did not return, as against 32, 28, 36, 30, 34, and 44 per cent respectively, in six preceding years. The second year men failing to return make only 12 percent of the whole class, as against 25, 7, 23, 28, 24, and 27 per cent in former years...
...jurisdiction where, after remaining two days, she proceeded directly to Manila. At five o'clock in the afternoon on the day before the battle, Admiral Dewey called a council of war at which he laid forth his plan of battle. The Olympia was to lead the way through the larger of the two entrances into Manila Bay and the other vessels were to follow. Accordingly, at nightfall no lights were lighted except those necessary to run the machinery, and the entrance was made at slow speed. Unfortunately, just at the point of passing the outer forts the smoke pipe...
Copan will be the objective point of the expedition, and Mr. Gordon's party will join him there later in the season. It is intended to excavate the larger temples, and to copy by means of impressions or moulds the inscriptions and sculptured decorations on the walls, tablets and altars, which will be brought to light. An experienced moulder will form one of the party in the field...