Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...battle fields of the war, would reflect credit on the most perfectly disciplined and experienced soldiers of history. Many of them became famous. Robert G. Shaw, and William F. Bartlett are names well known to every student of the civil war. There are many others of scarcely less renown. Many of these brave sons of Harvard never returned to their homes in the North. Memorial Hall is a lasting testimony to the patriotism and gallant death of one hundred and thirty-five. It is indeed impressive, at every Commencement to note the vacant places in the war classes. The members...
...several unprinted pieces. After reading these, Mr. Gosse spoke briefly upon the age in which Gray lived, and the place he occupied in it. Gray was isolated in his age, and went back for his teachers to Dryden and Cowley. He formed his style on these, and, in a less degree, on Milton and the Greek poets...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -At the foot ball meeting held last evening, a committee of five gentlemen was appointed to alter the present rules of foot ball, in such a manner as to make the game less dangerous and brutal. I would like, through your columns, to make a suggestion as to these changes...
...Harvard editor again smiles grimly as he reads, in one exchange after another, the periodical item in which is set forth the fact that editorial life at Cambridge is made bright and happy by exemption from the theme and forensic work which is exacted from his less fortunate undergraduate brethren. But is it not, after all, a pleasing little fiction? What can seem more natural than that the student who, from his position on a paper, is obliged to do tenfold the amount of writing required from his more fortunate fellows, should have his labors lightened somewhat by a regulation...
...have it, with Professor Paine at the head, and offering courses in the history and theory of music, from simple harmony up to advanced forms of composition, as a contribution towards a liberal education, on an equal basis with all the other courses in college. There are now no less than ninety-five men taking the six courses on this basis. And here is the keynote of the whole system. The aim is not to make finished composers, or in any way to rival the great music schools and conservatories of Europe; for there alone can the thorough technical training...