Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...perfection are. The variety which a Harvard Class Day furnishes in the way of entertainment is one of the pleasant features of the day, and the exercises at the tree form an agreeable contrast to the more solemn and dignified proceedings in the Chapel. Seniors are not the less gentlemen for showing for a few moments that they still have youthful spirits, and rowdies they do not show themselves...
...college together. For the most part they are strangers to each other, and the vast differences in antecedents, in habits, in tastes, and in character which cannot but be found among them, prevent them from forming one great circle of friends. They cannot but separate into cliques, more or less distinct; and they cannot in four years become so completely familiar with the character of every classmate that they can unhesitatingly declare that a certain man is best fitted to hold a certain office. It is safe to say that the majority are forced to accept one of two alternatives...
...notice is published in the Record, requesting "all those in college who weigh less than 110 lbs." to call upon Captain Cook, who proposes to select from the number a coxswain for the University crew...
...from the other groups. For instance, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard might form a group; Amherst, Dartmouth, Brown, and Wesleyan, another; and so on. This is not a fine classification, but it is safe to say that the more one of these groups keeps itself from the rest the less trouble there will be. We may have, some day, one standard university which it will be the aim of every college to imitate; but until that time comes it would be better for each college to work out its own ideas and restrain any innate desire to cross swords with...
...supposing that you have chosen your pictures with a little less regard for fashion and a little more regard for taste, you will find matters very different. If you have travelled, a couple of views of some well-remembered spot will carry you at once a thousand miles away. Before your cigarette is half finished you will find yourself wandering in fancy among the crumbling ruins of Italy, or beneath the battered castles of the robber-barons of the Rhine, or in the fading palaces of the Spanish Moors...