Word: cheapens
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...must lead a field of about seventy men in the intercollegiate run, and one must also have the good fortune to be on the winning team. If the framers of this strange device have any sense of humor they must have smiled at their work. It certainly does not cheapen the "H." One needs not only an extremely good pair of legs, but also a propitious co-operation of the planets before this fantastic coincidence happens to him. The letter might as well be withheld altogether as displayed at such a mocking distance...
...team, is the very height of bad taste. The noise occurred, not in the admission stand, but in the centre of the season ticket section, and consequently must have come, in part at least, from undergraduates. Harvard men have always treated opposing teams with courtesy; why should they now cheapen themselves by making members of their own team the butt of their sense less laughter? SENIOR
...Turkish scene. It is wholly inconsistent and contrary to the spirit of the production. The ceremony is already farcical enough without deliberately making absurd horse-play out of it. The directors would have done well to omit the music altogether rather than to drag in songs which cheapen the scene...
...matter which concerns them so deeply and they feel that four years are none too long for their course of study. A lowering of the age at which professional men can begin work is indeed necessary. But to bring about such a result Harvard college has no right to cheapen its diplomas. The result can be accomplished either by the united influence of the large colleges upon the preparatory schools or, as proposed by the method of anticipating studies. Let the attendance at preparatory schools be steady in boyhood, as in France, and young men will then invariably graduate from...
...writer in the last number of the Advocate urges that something be done to cheapen the cost of living at Harvard. The subject seems bound to come up for discussion ever so often; then for a while it is laid away again. Without doubt the necessary expenses here are greater than at any other college in the country. But this cost is partly offset by the fact that it is possible to earn much more money here than elsewhere; the scholarships are larger and more numerous, and the chances to find tutoring are better. So it often happens that...