Word: less
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...inaccuracies and mistranslations without marring its inimitable style. At the time of its first appearance the revision was highly praised, and the work may be said to have altogether superseded the inferior translation of the one then in common use, Langhorne's. Its republication, in a more convenient and less costly form, will be of peculiar interest to those of us who are familiar with the advanced art electives, since Plutarch is so frequently referred to that it may almost be called the text-book of those courses; it will be remembered, too, that the Plutarch always alluded...
AMONG the advantages which universities have is the one which comes from the fact that a large number of men are gathered together with interests more or less in common. Numbers always give a certain amount of influence, and I, for one, do not see why we should not use this as much as possible for our own good. To come to the point, a large number of us want to go to New York (at Thanksgiving, for example) within a train or two of each other. We buy our tickets, one by one, at the usual rate, instead...
...higher courses in mathematics is a discredit to the institution. Only five have elected Integral Calculus; the course in analytic mechanics is not taken at all; and no one of the other courses has more than three or four men in it. A department which gives advanced instruction to less than three per cent of each class would seem to be of doubtful use to a university. Mathematics has always been thought to give a fine mental training; but, if this training be accessible to so few men, all except the elementary courses might as well be given...
...scores may not have the effect of discouraging men from trying their best; for, after all, it is only by trying hard that anything is to be accomplished. And now that the principles of training are so radically changed from what they were five years ago, requiring less dieting, etc., it is to be hoped that when the spring comes, men will be willing to make a temporary sacrifice of a few bodily comforts in order to put our Athletic Association on a footing equal to that of any college in the country. If men are to be induced...
...that the Weld Club, which, since Beck Hall was included in it, has represented the pinnacle of our social development, has made the most complete fizzle of all. To-morrow it is not to be represented in either race. For this we must not look down on Weld, much less on Beck; but rather we must envy their intensely enlightened and cultivated condition, which raises them above ignoble struggles in a club boat to the glorious realms of infinite "loaf." The other clubs are fast approaching this delicious state. Our races must be sacrificed, but let us comfort ourselves...