Word: less
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Coach Haines had complete charge of the three University crews and the first dormitory eights, while "Ed" Brown directed the work of the upper clubs. W. C. Chanler 1L, took the lower club crews, and F. B. Whitman 1G and H. B. Cabot 1L divided the less important Freshman eights. Reporting about two weeks after the others, the single-scullers were coached by Jack Manning...
...There is no better way of realizing what the class committees are up against than to estimate the quotas which each class must raise in order to successfully gain the desired goal of $15,250,000. Boston's share, amounting to $6,000,000, is a little less than two-fifths of the whole...
...intelligence of the nation cannot be raised, we cannot expect wise action on the part of the whole people in the complicated problems of modern democratic life, if their schooling is meagre formal, and sterile. At present, the vast majority of the children of this country receive less than six years of schooling, and what they receive is often not well ordered or given by effective, modern methods...
...book, but the laugh limit is by no means two. The prologue, too, stands out--not by reason of its prime position, but because it carries (as they say) a punch in every line. You can like the prologue whether or not you care for poetry. In fact the less you care for poetry the more you'll like the prologue. And the same goes for what follows the prologue...
...almost invariably a state employee--was, of all nations, Czaristic Russia. Under the "Tchin," or semimilitary hierarchy instituted by Peter the Great and in force up to the revolution, a Russian college professor had the rank and salary of a lieutenant-colonel. Evan in Germany, where a similar, if less rigid, standardization of officialdom prevailed, the professor's rating was that of a major only. --New York Tribune...