Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...distanced by it with ease, although they have the advantage of lighter barges. Mr. C. P. Curtis has acted as coach, and during the past week Mr. G. Agassiz, '84, has several times been out with the crew. Since last fall, when two eights were in training, the less desirable men have been transferred to the class crews, until the number remaining has been reduced to the following eight...
last issue of the DAILY CRIMSON. Gradually it became lighter in tone, gradually, we must admit, it became less truly literary in character. The first paper undertook alone to represent the whole of college life, now three are required,-four, for the CRIMSON SUPPLEMENT is so different from the daily issue that it is in reality another publication. Until the appearance of the last named sheet, we really have had no literary paper for some years. We have had a humorous paper, a light-almost dilettantic-paper, and a newspaper; and the change in the character of our periodicals does...
...recital. The reading was the best of the series. Difficult as it is to render Shaksperian comedy well, Mr. Jones showed himself to better advantage in interpreting the subtle and delicate fancy of the great master than he did in his previous readings, with the tamer and less exacting productions of Dickens and Longfellow. In the reading last night Mr. Jones seemed to feel greater sympathy for some of his characters than for others. The uneveness, however, if it existed, was but slight, and did not detract from the general good impression derived from the recital. Mr. Jones' series...
...Pickwick. Curiously enough, Mr. Jones did some of his most effective work, and that which was least effective in the humorous portions of his selections. His rendering of the trial scene in Pickwick was capital; while the delineation of the humorous side of Peggotty's character was much less satisfactory. In the serious and emotional parts Mr. Jones was uniformly excellent. The stirring description of the wreck, and the breaking of the news to old Peggotty were particularly strong and impressive...
...elsewhere, we feel sure that he would condescend to enlighten the heretics, at home instead of laboring abroad. With this suggestion and faint remonstrance, we would express the hope that the President will deem the invitation a standing one, and accept it when the labors of his position are less exacting...