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Word: less (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more suggestion and I close. Why not have two or more men to keep the time and let the referee give his undivided attention to the ball? I say two, because there is less likelihood of a mistake, real or intentional, where two men are concerned. Like the ancient Roman consuls, one would act as a drag upon the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/29/1887 | See Source »

...Fall River steward has gone back on the 50c. supper arrangement. He says it would take over three hours to attend to the crowd that way. If two or more order supper together from the regular bill of fare, he declares they will get a better meal for less money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 11/23/1887 | See Source »

...responded to the pleadings of the students, but to several of our entreaties they turn a deaf ear. In yesterday's CRIMSON was a communication asking for lights in the college library, saying that the best interests of the students demanded them. I wish to speak of a much less important matter, but one that is deserving of consideration. It surely does not seem unreasonable to ask that the lights in the hallways of the college buildings should not be put out at exactly twelve o'clock. Very often men are detained until after that hour, either by business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/17/1887 | See Source »

...more. The whole thing is dreamy and soft and full of summer. "Elmwood" shows one side of Lowell's home with a view of the broad veranda, and in one corner a tall graceful aisle of pines "Pines of Elmwood." The etching of Longfellow's house is less original, merely giving the front view we know so well. Lastly there are "Morning in the River" and "Evening in the River," the former a sweep of the stream below the Casino, looking out towards the sun; the latter, a westerly view showing the shore in dark shadow under the sunset...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Picturesque Cambridge. | 11/16/1887 | See Source »

...quite a mild affair, and for the first time in years there was no fight around the cannon. The spirit of hazing has died out here to a very great extent, apparently, and whether due to the gentleness of '90 or the severity of the proctors there has been less this year than ever before. The good effects are plainly visible in the increased number of freshmen seen on the track and ball field, and it will without doubt have a most beneficial effect on general athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Letter. | 11/12/1887 | See Source »

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