Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...number of students is 325, about fifty less than last year...
DEAR SIR, - The battered mediaeval walls of this historic city would prompt me to write of bygone internecine struggles, rather than of the peaceful athletic contests of modern times, were my interest in those contests one jot less keen. Having lived for many years at a distance from the scenes of action, should any misstatement offend my readers, I apologize beforehand, attributing it to my precarious sources of information. However, I have to deal with principles rather than facts...
...therefore feel that I may without impertinence call the attention of your readers to a plan which has occurred to me, and which may not prove impracticable. It is nothing less than the extension of the class festivities over the dreary waste of time which comes between the present Class Day and the present Commencement. If I am not misinformed, a Commemoration Week, or something of that sort, is the regular end of an English University course; and every day of that week is filled with appropriate exercises, - some of a literary kind, some of a social. I think that...
...first of June, 1876. The author started from Boston, crossed to San Francisco, thence to Japan, China, India, up the Red Sea to Cairo, from Alexandria to Italy, through France to England, and thence home. With praiseworthy judgment he devotes most of the volume to the countries less known, and but fifteen pages to Europe and its oft-described localities. We are surprised that any one could have passed so close to the shores of Greece without setting his foot upon the land. But with this exception Mr. Curtis seems to have laid out his route remarkably well...
...comfortable, study. Every one is struck with it, and exclaims, "How well you are fixed up!" But the conclusion is drawn that it must needs be very costly; yet there is nothing extravagant in it: on the contrary, the owner assures me that the amount he laid out is less than is spent on the typical Harvard room...