Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regret that the Index for this year has not yet made its appearance. "Someone has blundered," and this year it is the printer, we understand. But whoever it is, the misfortune is none the less a misfortune. Such a book as the Index intends to be, should be in the hands of the students as early in the season is possible, and we do not believe but that it is possible to publish it much easier than is the case at present. Never, we believe, has the book been as late as it has this year. It is quite probable...
...item for board at Memorial Hall on the term bills is very small, being less than ever before within the memory of present undergraduates...
...most of the so-called universities and colleges of the north is well shown in a letter to the current Nation, in which the writer gives a statement of the condition of the English department in southern colleges, To us the time and money spent upon English in these less favored institutions of learning will undoubtedly seem small, but in proportion to the money and means at their disposal, it is undoubtedly by no means as small as would appear at first sight. Often, however, the study of English, from a lack of funds, has to be associated with...
...that he attended was three miles from his home and his pathway there was often through deep snows. When fourteen years old he spent a few months at Phillips academy, Exeter, under the bunion of Dr. Benjamin Abbot. He mastered the principles and philosophy of the English grammar in less than four months, when he immediately commenced the study of the Latin language, and his first lessons in that study were recited to the late Joseph Back-minister, who was at that time a tutor in the academy. Here he was first called upon to "speak in public...
Several correspondents have urged us to make a final appeal to the faculty, or a systematic attack on the janitor, for more heat and less darkness in the chapel. It is, unfortunately, too early to insert our stereotyped editorial on heating the chapel, as there is a rule of the paper which forbids its use oftener than once a month. We, therefore, pass over the old grievance this time, and turn to the new complaint which has been made. The chapel, it is said, is too dark to allow the reading of psalms without injury to the eyes. We therefore...