Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next remark, that the hall does not pretend to furnish board at less than $4.50, is an entire mistake. The steward receives $1500 for his fixed salary, but the rest depends directly upon his ability to keep the price of board down to $4.00 For every additional ten cents in the price of board, his salary would diminish $7.30 per week...
...last night, is as much above the common run of dinner speakers as his father is above the common race of banquet posts. Indeed, those two speeches of the younger Holmes are nothing short of poems in prose, being conceived in the loftiest spirit and broadest view, and scarcely less perfectly chiselled and polised in form than if they were in verse." -Boston Transcript...
...control would certainly make them more careful in what they do. Amherst with her student senate having considerable executive power, has shown that students are just, nay, even severe at times, in their judgments upon their fellows, and there is no reason to doubt that Harvard students would be less able to wield power than Amherst men. If executive power similar to that exercised by the Amherst senate should be granted to the students in a conference committee where they would be aided by the advice of several gentlemen of the faculty, even that august body would probably grant that...
...Physical science-Either (1) astronomy and physics; or (2) a course of experiments in the subjects of mechanics, sound, light, heat and electricity, not less than 40 in number, actually performed at school by the pupils...
...ADVANCED STUDIES.1. Greek-The translation at sight of average passages from Homer: or the translation at sight of less difficult passages from both Homer and Herodotus...