Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...succeeded, the color was changed to crimson, and a committee of three appointed to determine the shade. Up to the present time, we have patiently waited for the spirit to move these gentlemen to declare themselves, but as the prospect of ever hearing from them has been growing beautifully less as time wears on, and we are no nearer a fixed standard than before, we think it highly necessary, by drawing attention to the subject, to have a settlement effected on this important point...
...connected with the Class Tree; and it is one which is most liable to become a barbarous rite, through a misapprehension of its proper observance. The inappropriate rudeness and Bowery spirit which last year marked the Ring Rushes of the Sophomore and Freshman classes has caused more or less apprehension with the Class-Day committee this year; a repetition of such uncalled-for roughness is certainly the least acceptable way in which undergraduates can assist in the celebration of Seventy-Five's own day. The committee have asked Seniors to avoid all absurdity in dress in the Exercises...
...Blaine, President of the Institute, from '78. Mr. Kidder was then called upon to reply for "The Ladies," and Mr. Swift afterwards made some remarks in answer to the toast, "The Institute of 1770." He said that the Class of '77 had somewhat changed the society by making it less formal, and he advised the class, which was about to carry it on, to keep up its informal nature...
...present there seems even less hope of an early resumption of the work at Penikese than when the circular which we have quoted from was issued. The Director says, "No further attempt will be made to run the School at Penikese, as, owing to its location, the extra expense attending the running of the School would provide for it anywhere else...
This article teems with misprints: Van Dyck is Vansyke; spezzi is spezzos; signor, meaning "sir," is accorded a final e, which we do not remember to have previously seen; and, worst of all, Catania is called Catonia no less than four times, -the writer having apparently derived its name from the Roman Stoic, instead of from its old Greek name Karava...