Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sources. The primitive American knew nothing of his relations to the past and the future, but by his acts he unwittingly has given us facts of his existence, as is shown by the relics to be found everywhere on this continent. We can gain but little knowledge of the less civilized nations from the conscious sources. The muse of history was once portrayed with a scroll and pen. The modern Clio should be armed with a spade. The historian to day has to dig for his parts. The study of unconscious sources begins with buildings, vases, irons...
...essays must be written upon letter paper, of the quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top and bottom, and on each side. The sheets on which the essays are written must be securely stitched together...
...Haven, Oct. 1.-The Yale foot-ball team is at present in a very chaotic condition. The men have not got into training, and almost everybody is more or less under the weather with sore arms, legs and bodies. The candidates for the team, numbering some forty men, have been out to the field for practice every day for a week, but as yet there has been but little real playing. One thing has been established beyond a doubt, and that is that the Yale eleven this year will be inferior in several respects to that of last season...
...Yale, McConkey did some phenomenal work at second while Kellogg covered himself with glory in right field. For Harvard, Foster did the most telling work; cutting off no less than four men at the plate by his accurate throws from left field. Henshaw caught well. Appended is the score...
...insight and imagination; whereas descriptions of moonlight and murders, such as our immaturity writes them, are morbid in all their tendencies. We cannot, of course, all be Thackerays, and "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," with the Muses as with less ethereal petticoats. But a vapid dalliance with literature is demoralizing in the last degree...