Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thought we had stepped into and were enjoying a greater share of pleasure than could be possible outside of college halls. Even when summoned week after week to attend examinations, our pleasant vision did not vanish. We never realized that the atmosphere of the Dean's office was less favorable to us than to others, although our petitions were often not granted. If answers to our questions were somewhat brief, or there was any lack of fervor in our welcome, it was attributed to the attention necessarily due to matters of importance decided there, thus leaving no time...
Harvard was successful in but three innings after this, yet in them she made a most remarkable display of batting, earning no less than nineteen base hits...
...third of the privileges granted others. It is not sufficient that the offending one reforms, he must even reach a standard of excellence, higher than that which is required of his associates, and this is hardly probable. We do not believe that the greater one's task is the less time it will take to perform it, or in giving to an overworked man more work in order to rest...
...Mondays, Tuesdays, or Fridays, whether it be lecture or laboratory, counts as a full absence. Absence from Professor Cooke's lecture on Wednesday counts as a full absence. Absence from any three laboratory hours counts as a full absence. The weeks on which Professor Cooke lectures, one hour less laboratory work is required...
THIS is the Student's edition, corresponding to the "History of the Middle Ages," published in the same form. The whole work is compressed into one by no means unwieldy volume, of very clear type, the only omissions being certain parts of the less important remarks, and most of the notes printed at the foot of the pages. Altogether it will be found to be a very convenient edition, and hardly inferior, in point of matter, to the larger...