Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dozen years ago which battled for Harvard did not find it necessary to have shore uniforms bought for them, even though they were quartered near more than three other crews and close to larger cities than New London. There was no talk of their esprit de corps being less because they could not have coats all made of the same piece of goods, or of their not being comfortable in their own summer suits...
...quality of the food has attracted a number of boarders far exceeding the supposed capacity of the Hall. Seats were provided for all by placing fourteen, instead of twelve chairs at a table. This arrangement, nevertheless brings with it some discomfort. The greater the number at a table, the less time can the waiter give to a single man. In fact, it takes a very spry waiter to supply the many and varied wants of fourteen students, in the short time allowed for meals by the present regulations. If we may be allowed to suggest a simple remedy, we propose...
...classics elective in the preparatory schools. Professor Huxley, the noted scientist, and, moreover, one of the governing body of Eton, has said, palpably referring to Latin and Greek, that the subjects which are now put down in the school curriculum as essentials, are, in fact, luxuries. And no less an authority than the London Athenaeum declares that compulsory Greek in the schools is doomed. The argument from the English school system, therefore, is likely to prove a boomerang in the hands of the classicists...
...their friends in the upper classes, and they will soon be told that freshmen usually have done more than any other class to support the university teams, besides looking out for their own crew and teams. The reason for this is, that the ordinary expenses of freshman year are less than those of any other. For this very good reason subscriptions bear less hardly on them, and they are expected to expend liberally to all calls upon their overflowing purses...
JUNIOR THEMES.The double theme (not less than twelve pages long) which may be substituted for the last two themes will be due on Thursday, March 12. It should comprise both Exposition and Persuasion...