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Subway trains will carry passengers through Harvard Square to the Stadium station before the game, to help diminish further the crowding on the street...
...diminishing the number of undergraduates would not greatly diminish the number enrolling in biology I, wherein lies the suggested cure? The Coroporation has declared that at present another course is out of the question. This must be due to lack of means in money and room space. The elimination of undergraduate "trade" courses should relieve to a considerable extent both the present congestion of class-room conditions and the drain upon University funds. In such a case the Corporation might find its present difficulties melting pleasantly away...
...timekeeping, but to no avail. The immigration authorities held that some deadline must be observed in the execution of the law, the midnight rule must be strictly adhered to. The effect may be to decrease the haste of steamer captains in trying to cross the imaginary line, and thereby diminish the danger of collision in the narrow channel at the entrance of New York Harbor...
...others have changed color or broadened. But they do not show the vast, complicated network which Professor Lowell thought he observed there. The most distinctive features of the Martian topography are the polar snowcaps, brilliant white patches at the respective poles, which expand in the Martian winter and diminish in summer, just as the arctic regions on the earth. The color changes in the canals and spots are also seasonal, and very suggestive of vegetation. These and other observations have led to the irresistible conclusion that Mars has air, water, warmth, and vegetable life. The planet is 4,230 miles...
...fact that everyone stands on the brink of a precipice does not in any way tend to diminish the number of University activities...