Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been due to the growth of liberal views in College government - and most of us feel how much of that is due to our President's influence - that not only less frequent attendance is required on religious exercises, so called, but that there has sprung up in Harvard that more healthful tone which fails to find enjoyment in the foolishness of hazing, or prides itself on the "Junior Exhibition," which somebody has somewhere called "that semi-annual farce where the students play low-comedy parts...
...opinion, though easily led astray, is still high in the main. Its scholarly tastes and habits, its eager friendships and quick hatreds, its keen debates, its frank discussions of character, and of deep political and religious questions, - all are safeguards against sloth, vulgarity, and depravity. Its society, and not less its solitudes, are full of teaching. Shams, conceit, and fictitious distinctions get no mercy. There is nothing but ridicule for bombast and sentimentality. Repression of genuine sentiment and emotion is, indeed, in this College, carried too far. Reserve is more respectable than any undiscerning communicativeness. But neither Yankee shamefacedness...
...sight of four or five hundred intelligent young gentlemen seated at table, and calmly discussing roast-beef and the leading topics of the day, is pleasing in itself. The architectural glories of the newly opened edifice double the charm, while the more or less cracked and clouded visages of our white-wigged ancestors lend the dignity of antiquity to the scene. The architect has kindly provided the public at large with a most desirable stand-point for regarding this spectacle. The number of respectable hats and bonnets which appear in the gallery as dinner-time approaches bears witness...
FIFTEEN thousand photographs of the Class of '74 were ordered. May their shadows never be less...
...experience has shown me that Freshmen not infrequently provoke attack by offensive manners, misinterpretation of non-interference, challenges, and the like, and are thus at times no less responsible than Sophomores for the continuance of the practice of hazing, I send this circular to the parents of both Sophomores and Freshmen, and I urge upon them promptly to throw the whole weight of their influence and authority in favor of the continued abandonment of a custom which has been a reproach to the College and its students, a serious obstacle to the work of both, and which...