Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...chime master is chosen by competition. A member of the Freshman class has, by less than a year's practice, become as proficient in playing the chimes as is the present incumbent of the office...
...present. No more work would devolve upon the assistant treasurer than now; for in making his canvass for money he would simply invite fellows to join the boat-club instead of subscribing ten dollars to the crew, and nobody would be prevented from giving as a subscription more or less than that amount. By this plan the University crew could be supported, I think, out of the general funds of the club; for the number of rowing men would not increase in proportion to the number of paying members, and there would be no need of spending all the money...
...meeting of the executive committee of the Boat Club, on Monday, it was decided that hereafter no one will be allowed to join the clubs for less than one year, except Seniors, who may join for the spring by paying $6.66. The fee for the whole year is $10.00, in advance. Some further steps were taken to complete the purchase of the boats from Mr. Blakey. The rule that members of the clubs must first become members of the H. U. B. C. is to be enforced...
...that the Secretary and Class Committee have determined to hold on to this ancient method of compiling the class history. The Secretary of a late class, in a letter to the Crimson a few months ago, showed at length that the "lives" amount to little more than a farce. "Less than sixty per cent. of the class write anything at all," he wrote; and if this is the case with ordinary classes, what can we expect from Seventy-Seven? The class has been so much divided by the "unpleasantness " arising from this year's elections, that even the usual amount...
...Thomas might have put on his own programme. But to do such music perfect justice requires more time, labor, and exclusiveness of devotion on the part of the orchestra than men in college can well afford to spend. Wouldn't it be better then for amateurs to have less of the classic and a little more of a lighter school...