Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...race of a few days later, I do insist most vigorously that it would have a strong tendency in that mournful direction, and that the natural obstacles which the managers have to contend against should not be unnecessarily increased by one jot or tittle. Alluding to one of the lesser of these obstacles, I may say that, spite of all which can be done to prevent it, ''the famine which raged at New London on the 28th of last June" must to some extent rage there again on the 27th of next June. But who can paint the probable horrors...
...Library and use the books there (and there is no end of complaints about the inconvenience of getting at the books, to say nothing of ventilation), and the other is to buy the text-books yourself, which is very costly. This society would obviate both these difficulties to a lesser extent at first, and in time to a greater one, by providing several extra copies, so that thereby more men can work at the same time...
...that, when the College has provided us with a convenient and good field, it should not be used. That the Boston grounds are better, I do not presume to doubt; but I think the advantage of having the games played where the students can see them should overrule the lesser consideration that the farther field is slightly more level. If I thought that I was the only discontented one I should hold my peace, but I happen to know that I speak the sentiments of many...
...mathematics for men who have tastes in that direction only? It is not claimed that the establishment of such a department would raise up in our midst another Emerson or Lowell; but, genius or no genius, intimacy with the immortal thoughts of AEschylus, Plato, Dante, and a crowd of lesser luminaries, cannot fail to brighten and cheer our own feeble and faint steps. With proper restrictions such a course might be made thorough and exhausting; while by a judicious admixture of the history of the writers, their influence, predecessors, etc., a more comprehensive, comparative, and reasonably scholarly survey...
...volumes, with the Hollis and Shapleigh Fund of $5,000, which yielded for the purchase of books an income of only $250 per annum. Now there are 164,000 plus volumes, with a permanent fund of $170,000. During his administration there have been, among lesser ones, the donations of the Pickman, Walker, Wales, and Sumner libraries, besides the William Gray Fund of $25,000 for books alone...