Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...busy candidate does not at the time think of these less apparent benefits. He is wrapped in the task of issuing a Pictorial Section every other week. He not only experiences the first glamor of newspaper work, when he learns the mechanical mysteries of how half-tones are made and how the presses rhythmically roll out their printed pages, but his vanity is tickled by the thrill of seeing his own handiwork impressed on thousands of papers. His photographer's pass permits him to brush elbows with his professional brethren of the "Fourth Estate" at intercollegiate baseball games and track...
...York last month are now on exhibition in the Widener Memorial Room. All of the books have been picked from the Harry Elkins Widener collection, the duplicates of the more expensive books in the Kerne sale being selected. Hardly a volume duplicated in the present Widener exhibit sold for less than a thousand dollars in the recent New York sale...
...fire companies more or less organized this system, providing an engine house for the pump, and delegating only a certain proportion of the population to the duty of fire fighting. At every outbreak, the firemen of different ranks were there in full regalla, distingulshed by white leather painted caps with gilded fronts, ornamented by the insignia of the engineers, fire wardens, or ordinary firemen. The mayor, recorder, and aldermen were also supposed to be present, although their value as fire-fighters was problematical, and could be known by their white wands with a gilded flame at the top. Perhaps...
...made to be passed, but the character of the divisional may be changed by making it merely an opportunity for the student to organize and express what he has learned of a whole subject in three full years of study and reflection. In the freedom of extended time the less ambitious will find an advantage and the capable undergraduate will more nearly approach an understanding of his field sufficient for him to attempt a small specialized job in the form of a thesis in his final year. From a hurdle for the honors men the divisional becomes the natural consummation...
...crew season presents an unusual opportunity for inexperienced men in the University who weight 125 pounds or less to make some good crew; and in his talk on Monday evening Coach Brown emphasized the desirability of having every available man try out. The same is even more true of the Freshmen as there is generally a shortage of steersmen owing to the large number of dormitory crews. It is interesting to note that during the last six years only one Freshmen cox had experience before coming to college. Notices about the Coxswains' School will appear in the CRIMSON shortly...