Word: less
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cannot help but think that we have been delinquent in our duty so far--not intentionally, but thoughtlessly. Inas-much as our guests, the Japanese students, have taken the initiative and declared for mutual sympathy and understanding, can we do anything less than thank them sincerely for their fine attitude and strive by reciprocal friendliness to prove ourselves worthy of the proud position in which they consider us as Americans? GORDON W. ALLPORT...
...music that shall make itself felt at every college function, formal or informal, and so, eventually, at every graduate affair. There is no "college" occasion where singing is inappropriate; at football games, at athletic meets, at smokers, in clubs,--everywhere is singing desirable, not the half-hearted, heavy, rhythm less rumble that we have sometimes heard in the Stadium, but a clean-cut, vigorous, buoyant singing that will be an inspiration to everyone that hears...
...subtle, weighted with thought, tinged with autumnal melancholy. He was a most fertile composer, and, like all the men of his time and group, produced too much. Yet his patriotic verse was so admirable in feeling and is still so inspiring to his readers that one cannot wish it less in quantity; and in the field of political satire, such as the two series of Bigelow Papers, he had a theme and a method precisely suited to his temperament. No American has approached Lowell's success in this difficult genre: the swift transitions from rural Yankee humor to splendid scorn...
...club shall take as a member any undergraduate from the class of 1918 or subsequent classes, who has accepted election before the Friday following the fourth Monday after the opening of College in his Sophomore year to any other social club or society which takes in less than one hundred members from a College class. The Advisory Committee shall have power to determine what organizations come within the meaning of this rule." The Advisory Committee is composed of one graduate representative from each club...
...lacks the men to meet them. Aside from the time given for preparation, such work rarely requires more than one evening a week. While many men feel that their time is too full to crowd into it another activity, the manner in which they meet this appeal from the less fortunate is a fair indication of their future usefulness. Men who have done this work assert to the fact that the value of the experience repays their time many fold...