Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Scientific School there is a revised course of instruction, which requires fewer recitations a week. In Thayer Hall the price of some of the rooms has been reduced, so that rooms which formerly cost $150 may now be had for $125. This is good news, and it would have been still better if the reduction had extended to all the rooms in that building, and the rest also. The Examination Group and the order of the Entrance Examinations are printed in the Catalogue this year for the first time. The editor has tried to restore the titles of the degrees...
...number of students is two thousand. Their rooms are considerably larger as a rule than those at Harvard or Yale, and having much fewer books in them appear more like sitting-rooms than studies. In a view that is given of the interior of a student's room the freedom from overcrowding, either with furniture or smaller objects, is especially noticeable...
...cause of co-education, hidden among as many hair-breadth 'scapes and stirring incidents as you will find in the last sensation novel, and adorned by the usual quotations from "The Princess." We sincerely hope that the heroine (cui nomen Wilhelmina, appropriately shortened to "Will") had no fewer adventures in her after life than in her college course; for she must have contracted a morbid desire for excitement during those four years. She saves a classmate (male, of course) from drowning, rides a wild horse, is almost killed, like Horace, by the falling branch of a tree, and generally...
...good sign that fewer students smoke in the Senior than in the Sophomore year...
...McGill University Gazette is quite readable, and if there were just a little less about foot-ball, and fewer second-rate and second-hand jokes, we should praise the Editors for their judiciousness and care in selection...