Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...frequent celebrations, the noisy ebullitions of students, due to the delight of being "all through," are neither a cause of edification nor enjoyment to their less fortunate neighbors who are still compelled to plod the tiresome road of the "grind." Again, the man who surrounds himself with more reserved books than he can use at once, that forsooth, when he wishes to study them he may not be obliged to wait, is doing a positive injustice to his fellow-students. Thoughtlessness has been made to serve as the mask for a multitude of sins in the past...
...Veuve Eugene Belin et Fils-a very unusual thing for a foreign or in fact an American publishing house to do. When Professor Cohn was abroad last summer, he visited this publishing house and admired this set of French classics, as they are admirably adapted for work in the less advanced French courses. Hence the gift...
...history. With this in view, the members are at present at work in drawing up a bill providing for the establishment of a "National Hall of Records," in which the archives of the United States can be carefully kept and preserved. At present the archives are scattered more or less over the United States and are kept in a rather slipshod manner. To remedy this, the association is bending all its efforts...
Number seven of Volume XLVI of the Advocate which will appear today is of more interest to seniors as a memento of their class dinner than to the college at large. The editorials occupy less space than usual, and are not quite up to the high standard of the past issues under the present board. This is explainable by the dearth of topics which necessitates the selection of the "would-be bloods" as an editorial subject...
...electric cars will run from Harvard Square to the West Boston bridge in fifteen minutes, eight minutes less than is required at present...