Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...weaker Nine than the Bostons. Had our Nine been able to keep up their playing of the first five innings, we might have returned better satisfied; they excelled rather in striking than in fielding, making as many base hits as the Bostons. We thought that the Harvards showed rather less nerve and pluck in playing an up-hill game than we have been led to expect from them, and they were badly out-played in base-running. The collision between Tower and Hodges in the last innings showed the need of more system in taking flys. Tower was obliged...
...number of players on each side shall be not more than twenty, or not less than ten. The definite number to be settled by the Captains before each match...
...repeat, on next Tuesday evening, the comic opera entitled "The Doctor of Alcantara." In the first rendering of this opera the amateur company are entitled to commendation for a performance of more than average merit. The Tenor sang with especial feeling and spirit, and altogether, his was open to less unfavorable criticism than any other performance of the evening. Miss M. K. Shackford, in the delivery of her principal arias, was admirable both in tone and style. The chorus showed excellent training, and deserves a passing compliment...
...done is to develop them by exercise and judicious criticism. Difficult as it is to write an article for a college paper on a subject in which we are interested, we know how much more difficult it proves to write a theme or a forensic, of much less length and poorer quality, and we have no reason to think that the case would be different with regard to elocution, especially when we remember what a wretched farce recitation in that study used to be. A step in the right direction was taken when an instructor in elocution was appointed...
...anarchy and disorder. It appears that on Friday, the 13th inst., the whole Sophomore Class of Harvard University, five thousand in number, marched, armed to the teeth, to the State House in Boston, and peremptorily ordered the Mayor to provide them with a dinner which should consist of not less than sixty-three, and not more than one hundred and seventy-five courses...