Word: smallness
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...Nine were accompanied by a small party of friends, - some going to inspirit their champions, others in the more mercenary expectation of "getting on" bets. The latter class were sadly disappointed; a long line of defeats has implanted in the Yalensian mind a deep conviction of the impropriety-nay, the immorality-of betting, especially against Harvard. Two and three to one was the current rate of investment...
...just the cost. But when the contract was made, Mr. Palmer had not the slightest expectation of selling so many as he has. A slight profit has thus been made, which enables Mr. Palmer to construct the stand in the Library, and furnishes Mr. Sever with a small inducement to undertake their sale...
...shall not be considered as presumptuous or given to a spirit of fault-finding. Why is it that students electing this course are never given an opportunity of inspecting specimens of metals, fossils, and rocks, to which continual reference is made, and the description of which forms no small portion of the work used as a text-book? Students are compelled to learn the classification of rocks, their various subdivisions, and the numerous qualities of many in their simple state, and of some after they have been changed by subterraneous action; and this, too, without having seen a single specimen...
...which is not in the 'ring.' We open it with a sense of security against meeting the 'Enviable Mr. Vassar!' and the means of self-delusion employed by the Vassar Senior pining for masculine society. The University Herald, in its excellent hints to its successors, recommends that a few small items be always set up to be ready to complete a column in case of need. We should judge that most of the college periodicals have the above-mentioned stereotyped into permanencies, and introduce them, if need be, on every page of their publications. But we did not start...
...ridicule. A more serious bit of information has recently been given to us. For failing to hand in a theme corrected, a large deduction from the marks previously assigned is made. That, too, when the professor has acknowledged, on one occasion at least, that it was a matter of small importance. Not so much the good we derive from substituting a synonyme for the word we used before is considered, as the fact that this rule teaches us to be punctual. But why deductions are made from our rank, instead of demerits given to us for disobeying a college rule...