Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incident common to every village and town. The coming and going, the opportunity of being somewhere else, that has a way of depopulating Harvard over the weekends to the belittlement of those gentler amenities, good talk and reading, has hit the American home just as acutely. If undergraduates are less in their rooms today, and consequently less accessible to the knowledge of one another and of books: if they are more in the company of girls, more addicted to dancing and visiting, thanks are largely due to the automobile. And if they run more risks than in the days...
...Boston such stupid and unreasonable efforts to keep clean the public morals are unfortunately so, numerous that one folly more or less makes little difference, but the spectacle of a Bostonized United States is unpleasant and uninviting. It is by no means a wholly impossible outcome to the tendency which brought Prohibition to America...
...fortunate however, that Mr. Brown's withdrawal from coaching the first boats does not carry with it his complete disappearance from Harvard rowing. His former success with the class boats indicates that he is amply qualified to care for situations involving less pressure than the instruction of the first University boat...
Mathematics 5a, given by Dr. Brinkmann, is a more or less thorough survey of a number of topics in calculus and analytic geometry, which are not studied in Mathematics 2 and are needed for Mathematics 13. Each topic is very easy at the beginning and very hard at the end of its being taken up. But the topics are interesting though the course as a whole is not easy and its purpose prevents it from being unified. The lectures are interesting and clear; the textbook is patronising...
...really know about the weather. Do you know what would justify an official forecast of rain? do you know why the wind blows? have you any idea what a cyclone is or what causes a tornado? It is this type of thing which is hidden behind the more or less baffling heading of "Meteorology" and which in reality is more closely connected with our everyday life than any other science...