Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hall will be transferred to the new library building, and the space will be given to new rooms for students. By making the bed-rooms separate from the study, the plans show that even with the additional space of the library and recitation rooms, there will be two rooms less than at present. The chapel from its great historical interest will not be changed, although a much needed new organ will be procured for it. The main building will be connected with the library by a passage way. Divinity Hall will then be as desirable a dormitory...
...Capel recently said : "I have traveled much, and I have inspected schools and educational institutions in many lands but nowhere have I seen any training equal, much less superior, to that given at West Point...
...Francisco. Of course, the cause for this small showing of Southerners here is the impoverished state of the South since the war. Only a wealthy region sends men to college. But, in view of the present growth of the South toward prosperity this cause should soon be operating less and less. In fact, we hear that the number of Southerners at Princeton is already beginning to approach the old ante bellum figures. We therefore hope soon to see a similar increase at Harvard. One way in which this event can be hastened is by each Southerner now at Harvard preaching...
...many of us have genius. Great genius may survive conflicts with circumstances and gain strength at the same time, but a little genius is quickly and not uneasily destroyed. But great genius is rare among men in comparison with the small genius, which is possessed in a greater or less degree by everybody. It is the little drops of water, the single flakes of snow, and so on. So then it is also the little bits of genius that make the mighty college, university, world of intellect. This leads us to the conclusion that the interests of those of small...
...visit on that occasion was, I believe, to procure my subscription to the boat club; and I need not say that had Blake asked it of me, I would gladly have subscribed half my allowance. That boat club was the more or less direct occasion of our association together during our college residence; and though, perhaps, it helped to cost me my sheepskin, I am not yet regenerated from my impression that I made, upon the whole, the wiser choice. I speak, of course, for myself alone; and as Blake got his degree, the boat club had probably less...