Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Champagne repeated their successes in previous Verein plays. Of the less important roles that of Ein Notar, played by J. Loewenberg '08 of Konigsberg, was especially well done. F. C. Wellman '11, as Valcour, and O. L. Lyding '09 as Ein Postillon were well able to meet the lesser demands of their parts...
...suggested that their names be inscribed in the Union, and the current number of the Advocate takes up the matter anew. Memorial Hall, as its name implies, does honor to the heroes of the Rebellion. Shall there not even be some little tablet to remind us that in the lesser cause Harvard's sons were at the front...
...Harvard University, emphasized by the stinging defeat of last Saturday, if bound to cause much adverse criticism from both graduates and undergraduates. The responsibility for the defeat must be mainly with those in control of football, although at least a part must be borne by Harvard men themselves. This lesser responsibility is due to the general spirit of resignation which was shown, immediately after the Yale game, to have pervaded the University. Being resigned to defeat, coupled with the sentiment so generally expressed: "Well, they played ever so much better than was expected and did mighty well to hold Yale...
...whether the privilege is continued in the future depends very largely upon its success with the class of 1908. It is the general opinion of the members of the present Senior class living in those dormitories that the custom is a complete success in Holworthy, and to a lesser degree in Hollis and Stoughton...
Four pages of the report are devoted to a severe but discriminating arraignment of the game of football. President Eliot declares it is time that the public should understand and take into earnest consideration the objections to this game. As the lesser objections he mentions extreme publicity, the large proportion of injuries, the absorption of the undergraduate mind in the subject for two months and the disproportionate exaltation of the football hero in the college world. "The football hero," he says, "is useful in a society of young men if he illustrates generous strength and leads a clean life...