Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with what impartiality he levels all, scoffing at "the best among us" and the "hard students" in a manner that can hardly be termed "sunny and well-tempered," and while possibly "kindling the enthusiasm" that leads to "gratitude to past and affection for future generations," neglects the plainer and less romantic duty of justice to the present, - which is precisely in the Ercles' vein he decries, - the very pessimism of the Nation, leaving us neither mind, morals, nor manners...
...admitted. A student is apt to think, when a man shows he is unable to work with him sitting by idle, and interrupting with a remark now and then, that he is considered a bore, and, if endowed with a fair amount of sensitiveness, withdraws, feeling little less hurt than if he had not been admitted. At Oxford and Cambridge the custom is universally followed, and accepted as necessary and convenient. A refusal of admittance is not taken as an impoliteness even. The custom may be followed here to some extent by the harder working portion of students...
...considerable time to get under way, and still further time for completion, it is well, in such a matter, to take time by the forelock. In the second place, although Juniors have had frequent calls for contributions made upon them during the past month, still at present they are less subject to these demands than at other times. Finally, it seems as though a memorial window, to be literally a class window, ought to be paid for by subscription from every member in the class which erects it, and for this reason the subscription books ought to be opened while...
...student to rapidly glance over a large portion of the surface-outlines of human thought. A Harvard undergraduate is not yet sufficiently differentiated in mind to be adapted for any one profession or science in the organism of intellectual society; and therefore has not that enthusiasm - always more or less narrow-minded - for any subject, which is the result of exclusive attention and concentrated desire to excel. Our elective and lecture systems, our evening readings, present so many branches of study in such varied and attractive forms, that we are tempted to sip the sweets of various flowers, and leave...
...required. Each class now in passing through College supports one crew. The Freshmen are assessed thirty-five per cent of the whole amount, because in the first year there are fewer general expenses than in other years, and large subscriptions can be more easily made. Other classes are assessed less, the Seniors least of all, because the expenses of a college course increase as one advances. We are sure that one moment's thought will convince every Freshman that he ought to do his share in supporting the University Crew by subscribing liberally towards paying its expenses...