Word: less
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with the season's experiences and lessons fresh in mind, is the time to begin preparations for next year. If all men who expect to try for the team next year will exercise regularly and keep in good condition and training during the intervening time, there will be less likelihood that the team will fail from lack of mere physical strength and endurance...
HENRY W. FOOTE.ENGINEERING SOCIETY. The mechanical section of the Harvard Engineering society met last night at Mr. C. S. Dow's, where a very successful meeting was held and the organization for the year perfected. Mr. L. S. Marks gave an enjoyable talk on some of the less known but most interesting points in the early development of the steam engine...
...said that if the music was of a higher and more serious nature there would be less objection to the trip. But this objection is founded upon misconception of the true object of a college Glee Club. If our graduates wish to listen to classical music they will seek professional musicians. Men engaged in the serious work of life go to a Glee Club concert to renew their relations with their Alma Mater and to live over, to some extent, their college days. If the concert does not satisfy this desire it is a failure. To demand, therefore, that...
...Orator and Chorister are positions of great responsibility; and the men who are to fill them should be chosen solely for the particular ability which each man has to fill the place for which he is nominated. The offices of First, Second and Third Marshals are positions requiring less ability of one particular kind or another. They are in large part honorary, and to them should be elected those men who have been most prominent among their fellows and who have done the most for the University and for the class...
...obliterated in Harvard class elections. It is impossible to see how the true Harvard spirit can be fully awakened so long as one-third the members of each Senior class deliberately sacrifice university ideals and interests by blind acts of club partisanship. And the non-society men are no less to blame; with their two-thirds voting power they have been too long indifferent to the evils. As a matter of fact, few men see the evil at the time, and, like the writer, only regret what they have done or failed to do after a year...