Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...well in their striking as to atone for their numerous faults and mishaps in the field; a result due chiefly to the splendid batting of Tyler, Kent, and Tyng. Hooper pitched in an almost faultless manner; while Thatcher promises to become a fine catcher, being charged with fewer errors than we have often seen committed by a veteran, though he needs to get the ball out of his hands a little quicker, when throwing to second base. We have grown so accustomed to good play from Kent that we scarcely notice it; and Tower distinguished himself by two good flys...
...there was any lack of fervor in our welcome, it was attributed to the attention necessarily due to matters of importance decided there, thus leaving no time for the little civilities always expected from public officials. Arguments would have been useless to prove that we received less attention, enjoyed fewer privileges, or were regarded even with less respect than our older brothers. Conviction on that point was impossible. Fortunately that ever-present delusion of a blissful state never fades until seen through the eyes of a Sophomore or Junior. Harvard's youngest sons are seldom spoiled by indulgence, or handled...
...Eastern colleges; but in the free and unbounded West they flourish like so many green bay-trees, and rack their brains for metaphors which would set Pope's teeth on edge could he hear them; but they have at least the poetic spirit, and are apt to make fewer metrical mistakes than their more sensible and prosaic compeers. From their number, too, it is not unlikely that those very few will come who will be poets outside of college as well as in it. For in a very young poet it is natural to find the imagination running away with...