Word: longer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...even then only just succeeded in winning from Munroe. Later he did the 220 yards hurdles in the fast time of 25 1-5 sec. Merrill also did admirably well in the two dashes, winning both, the first in 10 2-5 sec., the longer one in 22 1-5 sec. Phillips '97, with no one near enough to make him race, lowered his previous record of 7 min. 27 2-5 sec., in the mile walk to 7 min. 8 2-5 sec. Immediately afterwards F. S. Elliot '95, rode an exhibition two miles on the bicycle. He rode...
...Reasons for the selection of the present system no longer apply since there is no longer (a) a distrust of the people, (b) a jealousy of a central government...
...proved that a much longer series of supplements containing fragments from Professor Lowell's college lectures will be available than was at first expected. Instead of six supplements there will proably be twelve. The number issued this year will not, however, exceed six, since it is desired not to make too close an approach to the final examination period. The remaining six supplements will appear during the course of the coming academic year...
...year is a comedy in three acts, which are named respectively, Death, Resurrection, and Re-incarnation. The plot embodies financial difficulties, spiritualism and love. Mr. Pickletop, the cause of all the trouble, in order to avoid his creditors is spirited away to a haunted house, where he is confined longer thean necessary by his secretary, Brattle, in order that Brattle may marry the old man's daughter, although Pickletop unknown to the others had already picked out Brattle for his son-in-law. Pickletop succeeds in escaping from the haunted house, and just as his debts are being paid...
...only by dint of that fretting which proves its alienate, and which compels us to coat it with the substance of our own life and thought and so to assimilate it with ourselves. Wordsworth said that "Poetry was violent emotion remembered in tranquility," that is, when it was no longer the motive but the passive material of thought; and acquirement, then, first becomes knowledge when it is not much a property of memory as a quality of the intellect, making a part of the judgment rather than serving to rectify...