Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Europe has fewer colleges than Ohio...
...greatest evils which a large university like Harvard has to contend with is that the larger the university, the fewer the opportunities the students will have to come in contact with the instructors outside of their courses. There should be occasions on which the students and members of the faculty can meet as man to man and exchange opinions. The gain would not be wholly to the students. Matured men may learn much from earnest young fellows. Our college conference meetings give us the desired opportunity. Meetings will be held every fortnight, at which prominent members of the faculty...
During the twenty-four seasons (from 1864 to 1888 inclusive), Dr. W. G. Grace has played, in first-class matches, 721 completed innings and scored 32,814 runs, an average of nearly 45 runs an inning. He has made 100 runs and upwards in an inning no fewer than one hundred and thirty-five times, being not out in twenty-five of these innings. His highest scores...
...many college men who, when it comes their senior year, finding themselves undecided as to what avocation to follow in life, turn their thoughts to journalism. Generally, however, they find some other occupation in which they can get a little better start, leave the field of journalism, and consequently fewer college-bred men are to be found in that profession than in any other. The Unicersity has taken the trouble to write to the editors of several of the leading newspapers, asking them for their opinions as to the chances of success of college graduates. The following reply is from...
...first suggestion; and that is that preliminary bouts in wrestling be held in order to weed out the entries, some time before the day of the meeting, so that on that day there will be fewer contestants, and accordingly, less time taken up. At this last meeting there was an hour's actual wrestling, and this, with the long waits necessary between the falls, made the events very tiresome and long drawnout. This proposed condensation of the wrestling would not only economize time, but would also lend fresh interest to the bouts, since the contestants would be more skilful...