Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During these ten years the additions to the college buildings and equipment have been most substantial. Franklin Lincoln, and Barnes halls, the gymnasium, half of the main building of Sibley college, and its shops and laboratories, besides some lesser buildings have been erected, while a magnificent library and a commodious chemical laboratory are now in construction. The benefactors of Cornell have been wisely obtained from tying up their gifts for special purposes. Nearly the whole of the annual income can be employed by the trustees as they deem most expedient. It is for this reason that Cornell has been able...
...appointments to the foreign missions have been wise especially to the lesser missions.- Nation, March...
Individuality plays an important role in modern German thought. In every branch of learning, the individual is emphasized and respected. In the drama the lesser characters are no longer machines; they are free-acting and free-thinking individuals. The result of this exhaustive specialization of intellect of the Germans will be that it will compel all other nations sooner or later to adopt...
...short time ago to criticize severely the ungentlemanly conduct of certain freshmen in Prof. Lovering's course. We find by a communication which appears in to-day's issue that this loose behavior is not by any means confined to the course in physics, but pervades to a lesser extent several other freshman courses. Some freshmen evidently lack the wit and common sense to understand that because they are not forced to act in a certain manner during lectures, that they are perfectly free to abuse this privilege howsoever they see fit, "from rolling pennies down the aisle," to reading...
...Tugper, manager of Pach's Studio, still holds to his promise and is framing large numbers of pictures at lesser rates than any other house in town...