Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...race to be held under the auspices of the Athletic Association. The Boston Bicycle Club still continues to hold its weekly meets, and interest in the sport seems steadily on the increase, especially as an American firm is now making machines of as good quality as the English at less than half the cost. In this connection we wish to correct an error which appeared in our last issue. It was there stated that after arriving at Squantum the Boston club returned home by rail. We are glad to learn that the club completed the entire journey on their machines...
...well congratulate themselves because, instead of being obliged to glean from the antiquated pages of Campbell and puzzle over the blind theories of Whately, they have all that is valuable in these two writers, and much that is important and fresher brought together in an inviting volume of less than three hundred pages...
...from commenting on the conduct of an Examiner, who was present at a recitation in English 2 one morning this week. At the close of the recitation this gentleman expressed to the class his dissatisfaction with the way the elective was conducted, advocating reading with expression, and going over less work in the course of the year. The instructor, in defending himself, said that his idea was to go over as much ground in the course as possible, and not to attempt fine elocution and expression in reading. A discussion followed before the division, in which the Examiner was worsted...
...Ecclesioe. For, as I interpret these sacred ideas, the cause of Christ and the Church is advanced by whatever liberalizes and enriches and enlarges the mind. All study, scientifically pursued, is a study of theology; for all scientific study is the study of Law; and 'of Law nothing less can be acknowledged than that her seat is in the bosom...
...lofty mark. Spider, who is chuckling at his triumph over me, is an unfeeling brute. His victory is not a fair one. He does not consider that while he has been grinding at that dull Greek, I have been enjoying some English classic that is none the less profitable because it will not add five per cent to my Greek mark. Indeed, if I should grind continually on my electives, I might score better marks; but at what a cost! What progress should I make in the much-vaunted "general culture"? I do not mean the culture that is obtained...