Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...confession of sentiment is to be considered a confession of folly, why then it behooves every true lover of sentiment boldly to acknowledge himself such, and bear up as he may against the abuse of Mr. Bounderby, the facts of Mr. Gradgrind, or the more delicate sarcasm of less fictitious persons...
...objects of interest to the graduate or undergraduate. In addition to these there will be heliotypes of a few of the former Presidents, and of all the Professors at present in the University, making the number of illustrations about one hundred and twenty, varying two or three more or less. Accompanying the heliotypes of the Professors, which are to be of cabinet size, will be their autographs...
...subsequent work; let him question a majority of his classmates on the same points, and any doubts he may have as to forget-fulness among students will, I think, be removed. The fact is brought before us in a peculiarly vivid manner, with which we are all more or less familiar, by the requests of our successors for assistance in various electives, after an interval of a year or two. The embarrassment into which such an appeal often puts us, to say nothing of our pitiful attempts at concealing our ignorance, is a matter of too personal experience to need...
...memorizing occurs in any of our work, particularly with a view to retaining the matter permanently, by rehearsing it at intervals of a few weeks; if in general we recall and fix in our minds what is tending to slip away, so as to remember more, even though learning less; and finally, if we remember that what is slowest learned is slowest forgotten, and so give more attention to every-day work and less to cramming, we shall find our retentive powers developing to our own satisfaction and advantage...
...Atlantic for March is a good number, containing more descriptive and less purely literary articles than usual. We notice a very plausible hypothesis in regard to the original extraction of the Californian Indians, by Stephen Powers. If the theory is not fully established, the importance of philological inquiry in researches of this nature is beautifully shown...