Word: less
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Globe.At this theatre, Miss Agnes Ethel has been acting in M. Sardou's drama of her own name, to large and appreciative audiences. Of the play little need be said. The plot is decidedly old, but none the less interesting. The impersonation of Agnes demands the beauty and grace of person, the purity and loftiness of bearing, which Miss Ethel so easily gives to it. Although unequal to the passages of tragic emotion, these are so few that the lady's weakness in those parts leaves but little impression on the mind. Her greatest success is achieved in the first...
...festivities, his eye sparkled and blazed with a youthful fire, and he seemed a boy again. With what glee did he tell of Harvard's one fire-engine, first at all fires (when perfectly convenient), drawn by a crowd of yelling students, and whose cold streams, when fires were less frequent and the student mind needed gentle relaxation, were often turned upon the windows of obnoxious tutors...
Amherst has been unfortunate in having its boat-house crushed in by the weight of the snow that had accumulated on top of it. The practice boats were kept there, and all were more or less injured, the majority, indeed, rendered entirely useless...
...possible they may be dissatisfied with us because we do not offer the opportunity. Let them, however, consider the matter candidly. The Yale Lit. is of the character proposed. As a rule it is "intolerably dull" - we use the Courant's words - in those parts where it differs from less pretentious periodicals. The same was true of similar magazines formerly published in Cambridge. Few read them, and they soon died. The reason is not hard to find. The thoughts of very young men are usually crude, and to every one but themselves almost worthless; besides, it is hard to find...
...first year of the new plan of instruction in the Medical School and of the new requisitions for the medical degree." The expenses of the School for that year were $600 more than for the year previous, while the receipts from students were $3,600 less...