Word: longer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...parts should surely do so. Competition, however, can not lead to a satisfactory selection if it is undertaken without very careful preparation. The time is fast approaching when it will be useless to attempt such preparation. Seniors who intend to try for Commencement Parts should not much longer postpone their choice of a subject, or they will realize too late that they have lost the opportunity to enter into competition with any chance of success...
...least justification for the men who continue to run on the sidewalks on North avenue. The captains of the various teams have taken action in the matter so far as the men who are training under them are concerned, so that the running of the teams no longer gives cause for complaint. Individuals who are members of no teams, however, still continue the practice which others with more wisdom have given up. Some time ago the deans of both the College and the Scientific School made a particular request that the rules laid down by the team captains should...
...Reasons for electing senators by the legislatures no longer exist. - (a) Distrust in popular elections unwarrantable. - (b) Senators are not now considered as mere agents. - (c) Senators act from personal convictions...
...Irrigation is of greatest value to the country. - (a) Large areas now worthless without it: Powell, 48. - (b) 120,000,000 acres reclaimable: Sec. Noble's Report 1891. - (c) Government no longer has any good agricultural land left. - (d) Irrigated land better for agriculture than common land. - (e) Irrigation has developed the country immensely. - (x) in India: Wilson 418-20. - (y) in Southern California and in New Mexico: Sec. Noble's Report...
Sophomore Crew.The candidates for the '97 crew have been reduced to sixteen men, and the two crews will certainly be retained until it is time to go on the river, if not longer. The make-up of the first crew at present is as follows: Stroke, Corn-well; 7, Chatman; 6, Elder; 5, White; 4, Connor; 3, Kernan; 2, Phelps; bow, Rantoul...