Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...larger than Whitfield. Dogma was larger than Henry Calvin; life was larger than theology, and so, one after another, in these which are the concentric spheres within which human nature lives, the successive opening of the partial into the universal and the temporary with the eternal, came. Not less, but more mysterious, and religious, is the little floating part when it bears the vast whole on every side, calling with deep voice, and opens its small existence, and is first filled and then absorbed by the complete, which is greater than the partialness. I know that you have felt...
...take place in Sanders theatre will, we are assured, mark well the current of Harvard thought to-day, although one characteristic of life here will not be very manifest, namely, the lackadaisical spirit which has affected a certain number of our students, which, we believe, is growing less and less each year, but which has done much to make Harvard and Harvard men, as such, unpopular throughout the United States, barring, of course, the municipality of Boston. If there were a little less of that unworthy spirit of which we speak and more cordiality and honesty, no doubt the exercises...
...less interesting to music-lovers will be the concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sunday afternoon, in Sanders. The programme has not yet been definitely decided upon, but is likely to be substantially as follows...
Such is the German bier kommers at its best, astonishing to strangers, morally revolting to those reared under the influence of Puritanism and yet withal far less harmful than one could at first sight believe. Germans view it with indulgence and make no such serious matter of it as Americans assuredly would. I have no wish to defend it; but it is a permanent institution of the fatherland, and laughable or solemn, defensible or indefensible, it is worthy of inspection...
...signatures for the torchlight parade are doing well in all classes but the seniors. The number signed of them is decidedly less - hardly more than half as many as the freshmen. Such should not be the case, and let each senior do what he can to add to the number from his class...