Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Matthews, of throwing bottles down through the staircase shaft. Thus the necessary and much-frequented passage-way to the basement is made very disagreeable, if not positively dangerous. We are convinced that the gentlemen can find, with very little inconvenience, some pastime that is equally delightful to themselves and less annoying to their neighbors...
...Become less sweetly fair...
...annual University race between the two old colleges is rowed at New London on the last Friday afternoon of June, a greater number of the people who are interested in the competition can attend it - and at a far less sacrifice of money, time, and comfort - than could attend it at any other place. Last summer's crowd was much larger than any which had previously assembled on any similar occasion in America, and it is fair to presume that if next June's crews are believed to be evenly matched, the attendance will be doubled. But New London offers...
...week all went well. I began to think the world less hollow than I had supposed, and my visions of the monastery began to fade. Suddenly one evening, a "sound of revelry by night" came stealing into my room from the Heart Club, (where they preserve the diamonds and spades found at Mycenae by Dr. Sly Boots). "Only once a week," I thought, and made arrangements to be absent every Thursday evening...
...Columbia Spectator publishes a violent attack on Thwing's "American Colleges." The book has received more than its share of commendation, and less than its share of condemnation; it has many weak points, and a malevolent critic, like the writer in the Spectator, might have made Mr. Thwing feel very uncomfortably: but the attack is too general and too short-sighted to do that gentleman much damage; the author of the article has wasted a good opportunity. His proof-reader has not learned to spell President Eliot's name. The Spectator contains a very friendly notice of the Harvard Theatricals...