Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of the snow storm last evening, the number of people at the Globe Theatre was not perceptibly smaller than assembled there a week ago. Rev. George A. Gordon conducted the service, and preached a short and interesting sermon. The chapel choir sang three times during the evening-an anthem, "Lift up your Heads," by Hopkins, and the Christmas carols-"His Star Shineth Clear," by O. B. Brown, and "The First Nowell," an old English melody. The chorus of college men was not quite so large as last week, and did not sing with as much spirit as they...
...this we have already paid $150; there is a balance on hand of $132.05. To cover the bill which will be in before Jan. 1, $450 more is required. This leaves no margin; with smaller receipts we must beg for delay or borrow. There are only ten days in which to get it, before the whole college-the committee with the rest-will have scattered...
...opportunities of a moderate range are many, but the tendency is for them to be appropriated by women. Those of large experience are much smaller in number, but the chances are increasing. The prizes of considerable moment, as in most professions, are not many in number. The requirements are very various, and, as a rule, it may be stated that no knowledge comes amiss to a librarian. The preferable knowledge depends wholly upon the kind of library he is to control and the sort of people to whom he is to minister. In general terms, I should say that...
...simply by natural ability and steady application, without being dependent upon outside help, as disbursements of almost sixty thousand dollars a year in scholarships will truthfully attest. It is a notorious fact that its corps of professors and instructors is worse paid than at many of the smaller colleges, and yet they refuse the most tempting offers ot go elsewhere, sacrificing themselves for the love of their alma mater. And still the hue and cry continues, "Don't go to Harvard unless you are rich." It is impossible to see how such a mistaken impression about a place should exist...
...Some one objects that it will seem to indicate a kind of contempt of the smaller colleges. Not in the least. Games can be played with them which are not matches, and the practice which they would get at New Haven and Cambridge would be desirable. It will be better for the smaller colleges. Take the experience of Weyleyan at foot-ball, for instance. That plucky college has made an earnest and enthusiastic effort to win at foot-ball. Its boys have labored just as conscientiously as those of Yale and Harvard, but they are beaten simply by the limitations...