Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE is a general wish among the students who room in College, that the late afternoon mail should be delivered to them. We have asked at the post-office why the students are less privileged in the matter than the people of Cambridge, and have found out that it is because the entries are not lighted. The Bursar tells us that the amount of matter that usually comes by the half past five mail seemed to make it scarcely worth while for the college to employ men to light the entries, but that it would be done if the desire...
...abroad next summer, whether they are successful or unsuccessful in the Yale, Cornell, and Columbia regattas. It ought to be the aim of our crew to establish their reputation, before going to England, as the best American college oarsmen; if they fail in this, they are bound none the less to row the Englishmen for the honor of Fair Harvard...
...editorial in the last Advocate asking for a course of lectures in Sanders Theatre, to take the place of the series of concerts which it has been found impossible to give. The Natural History Society will, as usual, give a course of lectures, but the subjects are more or less of a scientific nature. It seems to us that great advantage could be derived from some general course, given principally by our own professors on subjects connected with their special departments. Such a course has just been arranged at Yale by the Linonia Society, the first lecture having already been...
...electives must be limited, this should at least be announced beforehand. But we cannot see what is the need of any limitation. The numbers are not so large but that the use of some larger recitation-room, or the formation of another division, would solve the problem. A little less reluctance, too, on the part of some instructors to have a few more examination-books to look over would make matters better...
...Williams Athenaeum is well divided between literary efforts and college news. The former department is less ponderous than last year; the number before us contains quite a pretty love-poem, and also a hymn entitled "The Awakening...