Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...advantage we are enabled to enjoy, which, however, too few men seem to appreciate. When we consider the great pains Prof. Peabody takes in this matter of supplying the chapel pulpit Sunday evenings, it seems to us that the congregation should be made up more largely of students and less of Cambridge people. These ministers, in many cases, come from great distances for the sake of delivering one address to Harvard men who should feel duly bound to extend them a cordial welcome, and who, for their own sakes, should take full advantage of the rare opportunities thus offered them...
...that three great colleges should agree to such an unfair arrangement as this? At all events, no decision should be made until a thorough exposition of the facts conceining the capacities and peculiarities of the Thames River course has been made by some of those who are more or less familiar with that body of water...
...rain or snow storm comes up, when the moon is entirely hidden, and the belated wanderer is left to feel his way through the slush or mud in the yard as best he may, trusting to the gods for guidance. In a college like Harvard it is nothing less than disgraceful that such a state of affairs should exist...
...membership was 40 less than it was two years ago, previous to the call for subscriptions. The average receipts from the members have increased largely during the year...
...preceding paper has sufficiently discussed the impossible limitations of the elective system, and has shown with some minuteness the grounds of their impossibility. By limitation of choice some appear to mean making choice less. I mean fortifying it, keeping it true to itself, making it more. Control that diminishes the quantity of choice is one thing; control that raises the quality, quite another. Old educational systems are often said to have erred by excess of authority. I could not say so. The elective system, if it is to possess the future, must become as authoritative as they. More accurately...