Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moderator Thompson's great problem last year was to dampen the shoutings of Presbyterians who interpreted their creed differently and sincerely. Presbyterian legalists learned a new patience last year for Presbyterian humanists; humanists tolerated the behavior of legalists. As a result Moderator Speer can give his energies to Church administration instead of to pacification...
...genius of their classmates. Soon from all the surrounding dormitories erstwhile students poured out, coatless and shirtless, and joined in the ever swelling volume of song. Tin cans, fruit, and other missiles came from unfriendly windows, but even these and the remonstrances of two-Yard cops proved insufficient to dampen the vocal ardor of the assembled crowd...
...principal objection to "Mem" being used for this purpose will be that its very atmosphere seems to dampen any show of enthusiasm for gayety; those who argue thus point to the sombre but dignified array of portraits on the walls as evidence. I distinctly recollect hearing a "long Harvard" given in Memorial Hall on one occasion that would put to shame any cheer heard in the Stadium of late years...
...Crimson quintet will seek to dampen the holiday spirit of the Dartmouth Winter Carnival by taking the powerful Green five into camp this evening at Hanover...
Like most of our schools we have no athletic field but simply use the largest open space between our buildings for football and the walks around it for track. But inadequate equipment could not dampen the boys' enthusiasm to enter a winning team in the First Provincial Interscholastic Track and Field Meet in the province of Fukien. This First Provincial Meet made athletic history for us in this province. For the large majority of the thousands of spectators it was the first real demonstration of what athletics could do for Chinese youth and what a convincing and enthusiastic demonstration...