Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...show it if they dared. But they are afraid to oppose the college feeling. They have to be cold to their nearest friends even, or else the well-known spirit of indifference, which has held sway so long, will be compelled to seek a kingdom in some other empire less favored than that of Cambridge...
...Glee Club gave a most unexpected, but none the less delightful concert in the yard last evening. Their efforts were greeted with hearty applause...
Read this, '90! The number of successful applicants for admission at Harvard is fifty less than at this time last year. - Princetonian...
...admittance to the basement and stack of the library. So much confusion has been caused in this way as to impair seriously the usefulness of the institution, and may, in the future, occasion stringent measures against even those students who have great need of easy access to the less frequently used reference books. The trouble arises mainly from the failure of students to replace the books used. In that way alone over two thousand volumes were lost track of last year, - a serious matter indeed in a library taxed as heavily in other directions as ours...
...often happens that students when about to leave college, are heard to deplore the fact that their education has been so much less broad and complete than they could have desired, and that certain sides of themselves seem altogether untouched by their college training, and certain subjects utterly uninvestigated. Such complaints were scarcely heard in the times when a defined course of study was requisite for a degree; then, the regrets were that such and such studies from which neither pleasure nor profit had been derived had consumed so much valuable time. All grounds for these regrets are now removed...