Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interesting to hear some acute observer of society assure you that his classmate Fawn is a toady, that he does everything for policy, and that he has fallen in with the social customs which are undermining all the manhood of this college. It is no less edifying to hear some philosophic spirit pronounce social success a bubble which men are foolishly pursuing, and confidently declare that complete independence is the only position that can be taken by a man who has any self-respect. When this frank philosopher assures us that, whatever others may do, he will not "crook...
...comparative worth of the two languages, no one will deny that to students (as some of us are really supposed by the outside barbarians to be) a knowledge of German has the more practical value. Most of the men who enter the Freshman class know something, more or less, of French, and nothing of German. During the Freshman year French is dropped, and three hours of German are prescribed. Accordingly the average Sophomore knows nearly as much of one language as of the other...
DURING the past few years the class photographs have given more or less trouble to the successive Class Committees, more or less satisfaction to the members of the successive classes, and more or less profit to the successive photographers. The Class wants the best photographs, and wants to pay a reasonably low price for them. We do not intend to counsel extravagance, but we would suggest to the Committee that what is the cheapest in the beginning is sometimes the dearest in the end; and they should remember that the photographs will last, or at least are expected to last...
...casts his blunt weapons down at us. We are too greatly prostrated to attempt any palliation, and if we hazard facing him again, it is only to insinuate that in a future case even he, powerful conjurer though he be, must needs exert himself to introduce more blue and less crimson into his already falsely drawn picture. It does seem a little odd, now that we think of it, that "the eleven-men game was a concession originally to Harvard, made two years ago," when we recollect that two years ago, in the autumn of '75, We played Yale with...
...surely I had loved her less...