Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Well, in the first place there is more or less time wasted at college, and after four years of comparative idleness men ought to be willing to go somewhere and work. We get tired of being college `boys' all the while...
...Adams family are well represented; John Adams has two articles; Charles Francis Adams, sixteen; Charles Francis Adams, Jr., thirteen; and Henry Adams, eighteen. John Quincy Adams appears to have written nothing for the Review. The one who contributed the greatest number of articles was Edward Everett, who wrote no less than one hundred and sixteen. This number becomes more astonishing when we reflect that during Mr. Everett's first editorship, he was just entering on his duties as professor, and during his second he was a member of Congress. Notwithstanding these other duties, Mr. Everett once took lessons in Spanish...
...Practice and Enjoyment of Sculpture less prevalent, in Modern Times, than that of Painting...
...Freshman Glee Club certainly has its advantages, and no doubt it might have been started most successfully had my undexterous classmate troubled himself more about its birth and troubled us less about his "first-rate 2d tenor." As the matter now stands, however, the Glee Club is out of the question; for the members of such a thing would be the laughing-stock of the College after my brilliant friend's effusion...
...importance of forming Associations among American Colleges to raise the Standard of Scholarship"; and Colonel T. W. Higginson will deliver an address on the history, objects, and needs of the Association. For four years this Association has been before the public, and every year it has met with less favor than it received the year before. As we have had occasion to show, the examinations cover less ground than do our examinations for second-year honors; so that the Association offers only one contest which we are not better provided with at home, namely, the contest in oratory. Even this...