Word: longer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with which she lives her character in the Cavalliera Rusticana; her quick, vehement, peasant-like gestures; her clumping across the stage in awkward peasant shoes; her subsidence toward the end of the play into a hooded statue of grief, are exhibitions of her talent which will be remembered even longer than the untheatric pathos of her "Camille," or the bewitching gaiety and extraordinarily mobile skill of the coquettish Locandiera...
...catching, will begin today and continue for about three weeks. If the number of men warrant it a contest will be held at the end and four prizes will be given. The centre rushes and quarterbacks, who have been working for two weeks past, will be kept a while longer to give them an opportunity of practising with the backs...
Although the Trophy Room is no longer open to the public, any responsible person may obtain permission to enter the room by asking for the key, at the office of the Gymnasium...
...interesting to see how thoroughly awakened Yale is to her need for improvement in the art of debate. The last contest with Harvard has apparently made defeat do longer endurable, and every effort is being made to provide such training as may prevent its recurrence. In these efforts both faculty and students are united. The students are anxious to remove what they now begin to consider the disgrace of repeated defeats, while the Faculty seek to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education. Their latest move has been a particular request...
...crew will race this year in a new shell, built by Davy, from a very original plan of Mr. Bryant, the yacht designer. The boat is shaped very much like a cigar, the stern being square and about eight inches wide. It is several feet longer than the ordinary, and will weigh 250 pounds. The unusually wide stern is expected to prevent the shell from settling at the end of the stroke. If the experiment succeeds it will revolutionize the present system of boat building...