Word: less
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Mondays, Tuesdays, or Fridays, whether it be lecture or laboratory, counts as a full absence. Absence from Professor Cooke's lecture on Wednesday counts as a full absence. Absence from any three laboratory hours counts as a full absence. The weeks on which Professor Cooke lectures, one hour less laboratory work is required...
THIS is the Student's edition, corresponding to the "History of the Middle Ages," published in the same form. The whole work is compressed into one by no means unwieldy volume, of very clear type, the only omissions being certain parts of the less important remarks, and most of the notes printed at the foot of the pages. Altogether it will be found to be a very convenient edition, and hardly inferior, in point of matter, to the larger...
...face of them. If it be urged that a short course in rhetoric and a few themes are sufficient for the first object named, that of making our students good writers, then why these severe complaints from those who are presumably qualified to make them? But there is even less to be said against the second charge, inasmuch, as far as can be seen, Harvard's policy toward oratory is to bundle it off to oblivion among the other "lost arts," with all possible speed. Unless the Boylston prizes, which we owe to a private individual...
...really the ideal for which to work, this would matter little; but as it is, we must try to keep the ideal as high as possible, and this will not be done by describing culture as reading a certain amount and learning to write fairly. True culture is nothing less than the development of every part of our nature, and in leading the intellectual life our studies may be made of as much benefit as reading, provided only that we look at them, not by themselves, but only as a part of a training that will help us to become...
...always go hand in hand, that because a man is good he is not necessarily the idol of his class, that the tempter is by no means an "adversary," but with views very similar to one's own; - if all this could come about, there would be less disgust and failure in college, less disappointment and mortification at home...