Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is no doubt but that a winning game would have been played had the nine been better supported. Many times have our teams been inspired with Yale's enthusiasm to win glorious victories. Harvard sent two hundred and Princeton over a hundred men to eneourage their representatives, while less than twenty Yale men went to support our nine...
...bear our defeat as best we can. It was bound to come some day, as people say of Hanlan. There are many circumstances which lead us to think that fortune is not favorably inclined toward us this year. She began last fall and has shown her displeasure more or less all the time since. All our teams have suffered, but the ball nine most of all. Two of the best players were obliged to give up the game, and our pitcher has been disabled all the time. However, we won't offer any apologies. We were fairly out-played...
...their last meeting the Board of Overseers recommended that the requirements for admission to special study at Harvard should be raised. If there is one college in the land which presents to its special students less advantages than to the regularly matriculated students that college is Harvard. The enormous increase of courses presented to the regular students over those presented in former years, or those at present presented at other colleges leaves no loop-hole for excuse as to individual tastes and talents which might be better fostered by a special rather than by a regular collegiate course. While special...
...wish to graduate from the college with a high standing on the class rank list. But there are men who seem to do both; who seem always ready to idle away an hour or two and yet always are on the rank lists. Such men appear wonders to their less favored classmates, who magnify into cleverness what is only the result of system. Yes, system applies as much to study as to business, or in fact any other vocation where time and orain must be limited in their use. Those exceptions in the eyes of their fellow students...
...Princeton College. Ezra Cornell gave $1,000,000 to Cornell University. Isaac Rich bequeathed the greater part of his estate, which was appraised at $1,700,000 to Boston University. On account of the great fire and shrinkage in value, and other unfortunate circumstances, the university will realize less than $700,000 from this magniflcent be quest. Amasa Stone gave $600,000 to Adelbert College by direct gift and by bequest. W. W. Corcoran gave $170,000 to Colombian University in money and land. Benjamin Bussey gave real estate worth $500,000 to Harvard University. Samuel Williston, William J. Walker...