Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dishonesty Bounn" is fairly amusing. It is labored in parts and the whole makes one ask whether the writer might not have told the whole allegory in shorter words. Condensation would have made the point of the tale stronger and more enjoyable...
...Washington, "An Interesting Dialogue in 1676, between Bacon, 'the rebel,' and John Goode of Whitby." Judge J. Tarbell, of Washington contributes "Horace Greeley's Practical Advice to the Reconstructionists in Mississippi;" and T. J. Chapman, A. M., writes an interesting paper on the "Religious Movement in 1800." The shorter articles are varied and entertaining. The number concludes with its carefully edited departments of Original Documents, minor topics, notes, queries, replies, socleties, etc., well filled, its "Historic and Social Jottings" illustrated, and a dozen or more ably written book reviews...
...Tehuantepec ship railroad would be cheaper and shorter...
51Seminars Pol. Econ. I. Friday, Jan. 28th, 6.30 p.m. first two books of Mill. Saturday, Jan. 29 6.30 p.m. third book of Mill and chapters on banking. Monday, Jan. 31st, 6.30 p.m., a shorter review of the whole course. Gentlemen intending to attend will please notify me. Also tutoring in Pol. Econ. 1. J. W. Mack, 717 Cambridge...
...relic of this ancient Puritan narrowness has come down to us in our college regulations making the Christmas recess as short as possible, and fixing it without regard to the day of the week on which Christmas happened to come. Our recess is from four to twelve days shorter than with the majority of the institutions for higher education in this country. Those of us who live west of Chicago cannot possibly get home by Christmas day unless we start before college closes, nor can we get back to Cambridge in time for the opening of college exercises, unless...