Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rank of the university teams in 1885-86, it appears that the average percentage of the four college teams was 72. That of the crew was 69, the Mott Haven team 72, the nine 74, the lacrosse team 76. Only one of these 56 men had a mark of less than 40 per cent., while a member of the nine lead the list with 92 per cent. The average percentage of the freshman class in that year was 69; that of the freshman crew and nine, 61; of the lacrosse team, 67. The class of '86 had an average...
...absences of the men engaged in athletics above the average of their class was-for the Mott Haven team, 1; the crew, nine, and cricket team, 5; the leading tennis players, 7, and the eleven, 8. On the other hand the lacrosse team had a record of six less absences than their class average. The freshmen again fall behind. The nine had an average of eight more absences than their class, and the eleven 23 more; while the crew was about on a par with the remainder of the class, and the lacrosse team had 18 less absences...
...athletics make a showing worse than that of the freshmen. Those who did not reply to the circular of the committee have an average excess of 20 absences more than their class; those who take no exercise, 16 more; those who attended no intercollegiate games at Cambridge, 15 less...
...action of the overseers of Harvard University at their meeting on Wednesday will strike a great number of the recent graduates as an unfortunate retrograde movement. During the twenty years, more or less, in which President Eliot has occupied his position, there has been steady progress in the direction of placing greater reliance on the individual student and less upon a vexatious code of rules and penalties...
...first time exclusively and proved very successful. The second year of the voluntary religious system has proved even more successful than the first. The report of the athletic committee is most encouraging, and in reply to the critics of our athletics the faculty urge, that dyspepsia is less tolerable than a stiffened knee or thumb, and that effeminacy and luxury are even worse evils than brutality." A new regulation requires holders of scholarships to take two physical examinations during the year...