Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...expensive one. To the large amount of money (about $2,000) paid for new boats was added the expense of keeping the crew for weeks at a training-table while still in Cambridge. The receipts from college subscriptions were about the same as in former years, but there was less than half the usual amount received from theatricals. Altogether the financial condition of the H. U. B. C. is fairly satisfactory, when the extra exertions of last year are remembered...
...chainless mind, not bound to beauty less...
...Tuesday last the Amherst Nine came to Cambridge to play the second game of the series with our Nine. As the Amherst men had defeated Brown in an up-hill game, making no less than five runs in the last innings, a close and exciting game was hoped for, if not expected...
...upon the habits of the men who are members of the societies. The change, in our opinion, will be felt in one of two ways. Either the societies, released from the control which their position in the Yard has given the authorities over them, will degenerate into noisy, less respectable, and more attractive institutions, or the interest in them, which cannot now be called intense, will die out altogether. The first result would unquestionably be bad; the second might be either bad or good. If the little remaining interest dies out of the societies, it will be transferred to something...
...their columns of the last ten years, and we have to congratulate our contemporary on having produced a most admirable book. The selections amount to a little over a hundred pieces, consisting of songs, descriptive pieces, translations, and sonnets, some humorous and some serious, but all relating more or less directly to undergraduate life. It is a book of which every Harvard man may well be proud. That such good poetry has been written by our undergraduates must be a source of pleasure to every one who has the interests of the College at heart...