Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work of time. It will be a mistake to expect a large measure of success immediately. Above all, it will be a mistake to relax the effort in case it should not meet with immediate success. An important object of the change is to reach out beyond the narrow limits of the present debating set, and gradually attract men who are not now thought of as debaters...
...should have been called "Harvard's attitude toward smaller colleges" must strike the average reader as a rather far fetched and simple question to write six pages on. A. D. Sheffield develops the only idea of any originality, and the attitude taken by the editorial might almost be called narrow-mindedly intolerant. The best undergraduate contribution is an unusually thorough criticism of Thomas Hardy by R. P. Utter. Three short stories by T. S. Hardy '99, E. W. S. Pickhardt '98, and P. W. Long '98, with some rather perplexing sonnets by B. Brooks 1900, complete the number...
...last meeting of the Lampoon board it was decided to have a hat band of the colors of that paper made. It will consist of a narrow stripe of old gold with a purple stripe of the same width on each side of this, and a black stripe, slightly broader, outside of the purple stripes...
...last year's football team met in 9 Hollis last night to decide on a hat-band. The ribbon chosen is to be the same width as the baseball ribbon, and is to consist of a narrow black stripe in the middle, with narrow crimson stripes on each side of it, and broader black stripes outside of all. Henceforth all men who have won football H's will be entitled to wear this ribbon...
...cricket game between Harvard and Pennsylvania at the Longwood grounds yesterday afternoon resulted in a victory for Harvard by the narrow margin of one run. The crease was soft, and at one time the game had to be called for a few minutes on account of the drizzling rain...