Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Anti-Alcohol Society has been formed. Members are required to sign the pledge, and subscribe not less than one shilling per annum...
IMMEDIATELY before the recess, certain public-spirited individuals circulated petitions requesting the Faculty to change the time of prayers to an hour earlier. The petitions were signed by something less than half the men in college, and we believe it was considered useless to present them to the Faculty. Prayers will remain, therefore, as at present. We discussed in our last issue the inconveniences which would attend the plan of having breakfast before prayers. It seems, however, that the men who are anxious to rise with the lark are very much in earnest; this is particularly the case with...
...consolidated H. U. B. C. Next fall, if the transfer of the club property from Mr. Blakey to the students is completed, and if the arrangement proposed in this plan is carried out, a stronger boating interest, than ever might confidently be expected. Every one feels more or less imposed upon when obliged, after liberally subscribing for the crew, to pay an additional sum m order to obtain entrance to the boat-house, and yet another, and heavier, in order to enjoy the opportunity of rowing. As matters, now stand, this, though unpleasant, is inevitable; and the wonder is that...
...college students consider themselves men, and are more or less indignant if that dignity be denied them, it is rather interesting to investigate the claims that many have to the title...
...however unfriendly a reception may be accorded to the organ-grinder within these classic precincts, in less cultured yards he is sure of an enthusiastic and appreciative audience who drink in the charms of music and monkey with open mouths. Put him in front of a bay-window, with a couple of babies looking out in the seventh heaven of ecstasy, and a nurse to take off his hat to, and to lavish his most winning smile upon, and it will be hard to find a more contented being than Signor Smitherini. He knows that he is inspiring...