Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...duty, it should be a pleasure to every member of the university to see the highest possible success attained. The slight personal expenses to be incurred should not influence men to the detriment of the plan in so much as similar expenses are incurred periodically for a purpose far less worthy. If a campaign procession is possible once in four years, what need we urge in favor of the procession now proposed...
...practically air-tight jar it did not require to be changed more than once in twenty years. Reptiles will keep for an indefinite number of years in this way, though they lose their lustre and brilliancy. It is wonderful to see the minute differences, of seven seales more or less on the head, the number of vertebrae in the spinal column, the rake of a fin - which go to determine the difference between one specie and another. The fangs of snakes are also curious things, those of the water-moccasin being the largest and most deadly. They...
...subscriptions are backward, but to journey in this, that or the other direction - 150 miles it may be - in order to "support" the home team on a distant field. In the case of the boat races, exhortation is necessary, but the result is the same. A greater or less number of students abandon their proper pursuits in search of excitement which is unwholesome per se, and add to their car fares and hotel bills the price of amusement, licit or illicit, during the nights they spend in a strange city away from their usual resources and their usual restraints. That...
...there will be two attempts to make new records in the short distance runs. Baker, '86, will try to equal or better 10s., the record made by E. J. Wendell in the 100 yards, and Wells, '86, will try to run 440 yards in less than Baker's record, 50 1-4s. Fiske, '86. will be given a start of 3 yards in the 100, and Wheeler, '86, 30 yards in the quarter. It will depend on the weather conditions as to whether the track at Beacon or Mystic Park is used. Those who wish to see the races...
...last six articles relate to the selection of the judges, their positions in the race, boats and other details of less importance. The rules are signed by captain Mumford and Lawrence E. Sexton for Harvard, and by captain Cowles, President Ames and George A. Adee for Yale...