Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...principal branches of knowledge. The time appears adequate for the attainment of something in each department, and a little instruction from each of the most learned professors. When, however, three fourths of the course are passed, he finds to his disappointment that he has attained very much less than three fourths of what he estimated he should receive from his four years' work. The expected and the realized result are far from being equal. Another four years might be profitably consumed without exhausting the resources of the University...
...each has authority enough to insure the support of the undertaking. An invitation from any of them would doubtless be as favorably answered as heretofore. The influence of societies would make itself felt beyond the list of members, and the benefit to the College of such associations would be less doubtful...
...joint-stock company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY? They cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two; for the Shoeblack also has a Soul quite other than his Stomach; and would require, if you consider it, for his permanent satisfaction and saturation, simply this allotment, no more and no less: God's infinite Universe altogether to himself, therein to enjoy infinitely, and fill every wish as fast as it rose. . . . . Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves. - Sartor Resartus, Chapter IX., "The Everlasting...
...next race for six oars was postponed twenty minutes, in the hope that the water would be less rough, but at half past four the thermometer in the judges' boat was so close upon the freezing-point that the boats were called and came into line...
Have ridden several times on the Erie and Grand Trunk Railroads, and have had more or less experience in Cambridge horse-cars off the track, but never was so jolted in my life before. Every bone in my body is apparently dislocated. In agony I shout "Whoa" to the horse, but with no effect. I turn around and entreat the boy to stop the animal. Like an idiot that he is, he only repeats, "Shoe blacking," and persists in whipping the galloping brute. My eye-glasses shake off, and become a total wreck in the bottom...