Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Noble men, being peers in their own right, who enjoy certain privileges and exemptions not accorded to others, in the choice of rooms, paving higher fees, doing less work, and attending fewer lectures. They have two kinds of dress; the first, which is worn on public occasions, is a gown of purple damask silk, richly ornamented with gold lace. The second is a black silk gown, with full sleeves. This is worn as an "every day" dress. With both these is worn the regulation "mortarboard" of black velvet, with gold tassel...
...Dark Ages. At the same time or a little later, the Devil too began to show some improvement. In Dante we see little of him. But where he does appear at the close of the "Inferno," he is no longer the spiteful imp of human or even less than human size, going about the earth to play practical jokes and catch the souls of the unwary. He is now a super-human monster, vague, mysterious and terrible...
...said that the zest of life is gone when we know that all is fixed. Do we read a story with less interest because the last page was written long ago? Indeed, the man of clear vision, who can estimate the forces at work in him and around him, is encouraged and emboldened when he feels that he knows what he is to accomplish. To him an opportunity is more than an exhortation, it is a prophecy. Yes, it may be said, very good, so long as the future he can forsee is pleasant, and the action he can forecast...
...beliefs. It may sanction certain acts and practices and condemn others; it may encourage certain states of mind. Thus we can conceive that if all the world turned fatalist, we might see our good people face life with a little more calmness and intrepidity; we might expect to find less self-accusation and less of what is called righteous indignation. For if we came to regard wickedness as misfortune and monstrosity rather than sin, we should not find it necessary to be so vehement in our condemnation of wrong doing, since we should not feel so much secret sympathy with...
...coming winter meetings by publishing a list of men preparing to enter them. To-day the list of men likely to enter the class and university games, shows seventy-five names. This is a state of affairs quite unprecedented for this time of year, but is none the less a necessary activity, if we are to win the challenge...