Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...easy to see what influences are at work to undermine the position which Harvard has assumed upon the athletic question. It is difficult, however, to incriminate her in this fashion. Harvard makes no claim that she has in the past been above reproach. She, too, though in a somewhat less degree than some of her sister colleges is open to criticism for the past. She does maintain, however, that her actions this year have been straightforward and honest, and of this she certainly has a right to be proud. We thank Mr. Hooper for his success in refuting the slander...
...because in becoming a republic, Brazil did not necessarily become a democratic republic. The bloodlines of the late revolution shows that the Brazilians acted from deliberate conviction. Brazil has been gradually educated up to a republican form of government, for the monarchy was so limited as to be little less than a republic. The change has met with approval everywhere. There has been almost no flurry in Brazilian goods. Lastly, the republic was inevitable, and the sooner it came the better. The debate for the negative was opened by C. T. R. Bates, '92. He said that the efficiency...
...summary of the base ball games is very clear and concise. What in former years occupied over two pages has been condensed into less than one half and put in a much more readable shape. The date, place, and score of each game is given, but the make-up of the Harvard team is omitted excepting in the case of championship games where the full score is given...
...take place here. It may be as well to make a few dogmatic statements concerning them. It has been shown beyond question by the experience of the great military schools in Germany, where supervision is perfect, that the early use of tobacco is altogether bad, though it has far less influence in some than in others. In regard to alcohol, German testimony is more conflicting; and beer is still given in the military schools, but there is little doubt that its effect is injurious rather than other wise. Before middle life, at any rate, it should be merely medicine...
...finds in the lack of any fundemental law of pedagogy among college professors. College professors are free-lances and when they are successful teachers it is ascribed to their individuality rather than to the correctness of their methods; in consequence the value of their example is lost on their less successful fellow-teachers...