Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which renews some structure or maintains some vital process." Alcohol cannot be considered as a food, except to the extent that it reduces waste of tissue. As a heat producer it is inferior to fat. Hunger and thirst are the demands of our bodies for food. Thirst is far less endurable than hunger; liquids enter into every part of the body...
...amounted only to 3.7 per cent. of the entire number of recitations. Prof. Ladd adds, "A comparison of the two systems as actually at work in Harvard and in Yale shows, then, this remarkable fact. The irregularity of the average Harvard student is from a little less than three to five times as great as that of the average Yale student. The former is off duty, either from choice or compulsion, rather more than 16 per cent of his time; the latter from less than 3 and a third to a trifle more than 6 per cent." He gives strong...
...versions must be neatly and legibly written upon letter paper of good quality, of quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top and bottom, and on each side. They must be deposited in the office of the Dean of the College Faculty on or before May 1, 1886. Each version must have inscribed upon its title-page an assumed name of the writer, and must be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the writer's real name and superscribed with his assumed name...
...which the junior and senior theses are due. The thesis is due a week earlier from both juniors and seniors. This is, upon the whole, a change for the better, as it enables the student to accomplish earlier that portion of his required work which is always more or less a hindrance to his regular work in the college courses. The final work in forensics is in itself well calculated to occupy his leisure during the spring months. The further apart duties of this nature are kept the better for the student...
...sentiment is of very slow growth. A few days since Mr. Lowell was speaking to a body of students, 20 or 30 in number, in regard to civil service reform. He spoke with great earnestness in respect to the reform as having a moral element, as being of no less importance than the old anti-slavery contest, in some aspects, perhaps, even of greater consequence than that. When he spoke in this way in regard to the moral principle involved in civil service reform, a very considerable part of that body of students laughed a little, as if it were...