Word: longer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which is entirely beyond what is reasonable. Whether or not Yale is spending too much money on the Promenade is, of course, none of our business and we shall not discuss it here. Our point is simply this, that people are beginning to appreciate that they can no longer confine the terms "extravagance" and "rich man's college" to Harvard without betraying distressing ignorance and laying themselves open to the charge of idiocy. Harvard can show no festival of any kind which assumes nearly the proportions in the matter of expense, for so long a period, as the Yale Junior...
...growing better,- as if the problems were growing more complicated and the spirit of Christianity could not be the force to meet them. It this were so we should have to grant that the spirit of Christ had been a force in the past, but that it was no longer a living power. All praise of Christ would then be the praise of a dead power and we are rejoicing in a force that has but half done its work, and can do no more...
...trustees of Union College formally accepted the resignation of President Webster. The resignation was presented a year ago by Dr. Webster on account of ill health. He was given six months leave of absence and returned slightly improved in health, but it was evident that he could not longer continue as president. Rev. Dr. Andrew V. V. Raymond, pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Albany, was unanimously elected to succeed Dr. Webster. Dr. Raymond is a graduate of Union College, and a preacher of rare power...
There is a common idea, he said, that the Bible has suffered from the criticism to which it has been subjected during recent years and that it no longer has the value which it had when it first became the common property of the people. Let us, with all reverence and humility, consider what the Bible is to us now and how it has been affected by the controversies...
...first business telephone line erected was that between New York and Philadelphia. The lines were gradually made longer and longer until the present line between New York and Chicago, was completed. This line is 950 miles long, has 44,247 poles, and contains 826,800 lbs. of copper...