Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...informed as a climax that one of the injured players was "probably fatally injured." Such rhetorical efforts as this, savor over much of the morbid, and we trust that the writer of the glaring account, will, in the future, curb his imaginative enthusiasm and adopt a little less of the conventional dime novel style...
...made in the protest against the amount of critical work required of the sophomore class, recently published in your columns. In the first place, to pass by the fact that a critical theme, requiring in its preparation far more time than the descriptive one so strongly advocated, is therefore less desirable to some students, I think that the writer's conception of the office of criticism is utterly erroneous. Critical ability is not merely the ability to "tear down an artistic piece of work;" it is the ability to see what is good and true and lasting in it. Undoubtedly...
...sister colleges lead the way ere she too leaves the present league to join the new. Supposing that Harvard, Yale and Princeton always will have the first three places in the league, we cannot see why the smaller colleges should esteem fourth place in the present league at all less dignified than first place in the proposed smaller eague. To be first in an inferior league, because it seems difficult to be first in the larger league, is a motive that results from a thoroughly false idea of what it is to be first. The plan of forming...
...make those, who do not intend to use their lockers, give them up to men who would use them. On the other hand, men, who now hold lockers and intend to use them later in the year, should at least cease to harass the nerves of their less fortunate fellows by leaving their lockers open in the present wanton manner...