Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that, at the time when some of these scholarships were awarded, the tuition was considerably less than it is at present, it is necessary to increase them up to $400, the present tuition rate...
With the days getting steadily shorter and the streets of Cambridge assuming already their mid-winter liquidity, the Vagabond was not surprised to find on inspection of a calendar last night that only another week intervenes before attractions less elevating than lectures will be alienating the interests of his followers and even--whisper it softly--of the Vagabond himself. Such a demonstration of the appalling brevity of life has had him hurrying back and forth along the way-stations of his academic route in an attempt to make use of every available opportunity before the Reading Period brings its starvation...
...temples were restored to purely Shintoist ownership, but very many traces of the amalgamation may still be observed in present-day Japan. The modern Japanese Buddhist pantheon is quite an international assembly containing as it does Indian, Chinese and purely Japanese personages The Tibetan and Chinese pantheons are less international, but their composite character does nevertheless present serious problems to the student of mythology. Most of those problems still await a solution, and the histories of many divinities must be written before a complete Buddhist mythology can be composed. As a matter of fact Buddhist mythology presents a maze complicated...
...Fogg Art Museum has found it impossible to offer exhibits of every type of contemporary artistic production due to the fact that by doing so it more or less endorses the works which it would show. With the natural center for such activity eliminated the existence of this new organization is even more completely justified...
...only a memory College spirit takes its bumps periodically; and underneath this periodicity there is clearly a proportion to that scorned symbol of Rotarianism, Success. The appeals of an infuriated group of cheer-leaders waver feebly when the last white line is ninety yards away. There is no entity less abstract in its origins and manifestations than college spirit, and why it should be symbolized and paraded as a Platonic soul-affair, or a causeless hatred in perpetuam, is a mystery...