Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This is the most important consideration before us, as we have said. The other and lesser one is that unless the proposed plan of celebrating is a success, our celebrations in future will be greatly restricted; we shall have to give up having a bon-fire and we may have to give up demonstrations of any kind in the Yard. The result of this would be that the new and thoroughly praiseworthy spirit of enthusiasm would be quenched, and we should probably return to the wretched indifference from which we have now cut loose...
Yale's pronounced victory in the intercollegiate games, Saturday, was somewhat unexpected, a much smaller number of points being scattered among the lesser colleges than was looked for. The captain of next year's team was not elected immediately after the games, as the usual custom is, owing to the absence of the men. It is thought that the office will go to Thompson, the hurdler and jumper, or S. K. Gerard, the sprinter...
...nine this will be the first strong team that the Freshman Nine has met during the season. So far the members of Ninety-nine have not been wanting in enthusiasm, and it is hardly necessary to urge them to support their team well today. This game corresponds in a lesser degree perhaps to the old games between the freshman teams of Harvard and Yale, and a victory will add much to the good record already made by Ninety-nine...
...this devotion to the weightier interests of the School has not prevented the most punctual and accurate performance of the lesser and less attractive duties of his position; and in his dealings with the students he has displayed an urbanity, a patient attention to their complaints, even under the most irritating conditions, and a devotion to their welfare, which have made him the father of the graduate students as well as of the Graduate School...
...organization of a sophomore debating club would naturally enlist the interest of a large number of men who are not competent to speak for one of the older societies. Such a club would greatly help to improve the better material among the speakers and to strengthen the lesser talent...