Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the authorities in charge of the Harvard side of the scholastic meet with Yale, in an attempt to diminish the publicity attached to the affair, had decided to withhold the names of the ten men who will compete for Harvard against Yale on April 30, they have now altered their decision of three days ago and are publishing the team in today's CRIMSON...
...most notable thing in connection with the Jubilee held in 1921 by the class of 1924 was the late hour at which it terminated. Not until 3 o'clock did the strains of jazz diminish in the vicinity of the quadrangle and the lights go out. Gore had succeeded in convincing the judges that its vocalists were the better of the interdormitory singers. Next year the class of 1925 again celebrated until the matutinal hour of 3 o'clock, and furthermore supplemented its Jubilee with five acts of vaudeville from the Keith Circuit. No longer was the Jubilee the haunt...
...room window. This was purely metaphorical; the intentions of Mrs. Russell had been confined to a talk on "Should Women Be Protected?" It has been suggested that the figure of President Frank dates from the days when he was an assistant to Billy Sunday, an imputation that does not diminish its illuminating quality...
That interviews with the firms with whom the Senior contemplates a permanent connection will follow close upon the midyear period, is a significant improvement. The hasty decisions that become necessary as the Yard is decked out in Commencement gayety should diminish, if they do not disappear altogether. A close investigation of the credentials of firms, in the past a work of the Office, may now be placed more generally in the hands of the Senior himself. Guidance of graduates already acquainted with a business should minimize that group of errors which have been ascribable to precipitate choice...
...both these departments the laboratory work during the Reading Period will under no circumstances be suspended or even curtailed in any way, because these departments feel that it would be a definite disadvantage to the students to diminish the amount of laboratory work in any of the prescribed courses...