Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lathrop thinks that the mile bicycle record can be reduced to less than two minutes...
...Oxford-Cambridge boat race is attracting far less attention than usual. Neither crew is thought remarkable, but experts expect the Oxfords to win, as they are the more powerful crew, though both are about equal in point of style. - Yale News...
...violent blow that the overseers have seen fit to inflict on the classical department of the University by permitting the departure of so excellent a scholar as Professor Croswell in addition to the loss of Professor Dyer, whose scholarship is no less universally acknowledged. It is not here our place to criticise the course of events that led to this wholly unexpected - might we say unwarranted - loss. To us falls the profitless task of expressing deep regret at losing two teachers who have won the esteem and the thanks of so many of our number. We are convinced that...
...differ from the nine or the crew, and why should the rules which govern all 'Varsity teams be laid aside in the case of one? Why should a distinction be made in regard to the 'Varsity Tug-of-War Team, simply because it is of less importance than the crew or nine? The rules which regulate 'Varsity men apply equally as regards tug-of-war or nine. Why, then, should '88 take advantage of her opponents and put a man on her class team who undoubtedly is a member of the team which represents Harvard abroad...
...test case. Whatever may be said to the contrary it is undoubtedly true that university teams, in the present condition of college athletics, have a regular business before them. There is no pleasure in playing a championship game of foot-ball with Yale College. And, perhaps, there is still less in rowing a race on the Thames. It is a real and earnest business, whether too much so for college sports is not the question here, and the long and tedious work is what will count for the most when the most is needed...