Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...feeling that these examinations are the object of all labor, and that after they have been passed there is no more work to be done, - a feeling which is prevalent among the men who come here, and which does not wholly disappear until the Annuals. Again, there would be less of cramming on special points, and of disregard for everything not likely to be on the examination-papers. And, finally, it would do something toward raising the standard of the fitting schools, and thus towards making it possible for Harvard to become, in the fullest sense of the word...
...purpose doing so. If any college enters at Henley and takes its chance of meeting an Oxford or Cambridge boat, every facility and a hearty welcome will be afforded them. Because Oxford accepted Harvard's challenge once, is no reason why she should accept it again, much less that of any other college...
...resolved that the stipulation insisting on a man's joining a club for not less than one year be removed, and that every one be allowed the use of the boats from the present date till June 30 on the payment of $ 6.50. This change opens the way for the formation next year of an University Club, - when our debts are paid, - and offers the use of boats and club-house for the remainder of the year at the lowest possible figure...
...average annual value of a fellowship; so that the annual expenditure at Oxford and Cambridge for Fellows, who in that capacity are bound to no service to the University, and are free to follow their own pursuits, whether they be literary or otherwise, cannot be reckoned at less than...
...Blackheathen comes to us in an enlarged form, and contains a little more of literary effort, and a little less foot-ball and cricket news, than we find in most of the English school-papers. There is a very spirited prize poem on the Maid of Orleans; but whether it sounds more like the "Lays of Ancient Rome," or the "Lays of the Scottish Cavalier," is an open question...