Word: less
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...poison one's self by slow degrees recognized by either the law of the nation or public opinion? Is a man at liberty to use solutions of Paris green, arsenic, cyanide of potassium and other poisons, as beverages? Why should attractive solutions of alcohol, a slower but no less genuine poison than those mentioned, be sold and quaffed and dignified by custom and tradition as promoting good fellowship? Why in the name of common sense, should we not drink laudanum, "blue vitriol," dilute sulphuric acid and other such beverages if we insist on having wine, beer, whiskey, brandy...
Indigo is now also made artificially, and this manufacturing process has driven the indigo plant from the market, because indigo can now be made at less cost than it can be grown. Professor Osterhaut indicated that the expected interesting developments in synthetic manufacture in the future...
...should be termed either oversight or ignorance--Heaven forfend the latter--on the part of some members of the Editorial Board. Surely, when it is suggested that a restaurant be inaugurated by the Harvard Dining Association at which tabloid foods shall be dispensed, something out of the distant, or less distant past has been forgotten. Why start a new restaurant? The dining Halls have always favored us with considerable food, the construction of which should meet, with the approval of the most fastidious synthesist; and examples are not difficult to discover. Take scrambled eggs, for instance, Has everyone forgotten...
Additional nominations for members of the Student Council may be made by petitions, each containing 35 signatures. All petitions must be in the hands of the Nominating Committee, of which J. E. Bolton '20 is chairman, not less than 48 hours before the date of election. Petitions for additional nominations for class offices must be presented to the Secretary-Treasurer of the class the same length of time before the elections. This year, the last day on which petitions will be received is Saturday evening, October...
...take into account the barely possible fact that some of the more energetic of the three Hundred students might have arisen at this hour. Nor did the editor recognized that the decreasing number of "late parties," one of the effects of far-reaching prohibition, may have resulted in less late sleeping than in recent years...