Word: lessened
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wholly dispensed with, and "absences" take their place. Seniors and Juniors, since they have voluntary recitations, will not be allowed so many "absences" as Sophomores and Freshmen. The proportion, as soon as it is determined, will be put on the bulletin board. The aim of these changes is to lessen the number of possible ways of Probation or Suspension, and to leave no occasion for the plea of ignorance of the law. But absences from religious exercises cannot be added to absences from college exercises to occasion any penalty...
...sorry to hear that Harvard's challenge to Yale to row a race for the single-scull championship has been declined. The reason alleged was, "that it would establish a bad precedent, and tend to lessen the interest in the eight-oared race." This certainly seems rather a foolish idea, for one would think that if a Freshman race and a single-scull race could be arranged between the two colleges, to come off at the same time with the "Varsity," it would rather increase than diminish the interest. But as the H. U. B. C. offered...
...class, through its Committee, had pledged itself to abstain from any action which should mar the desired open election, any canvass or combination was not only a gross violation of this pledge, but a direct insult and injury to the class. The qualifications of the candidates cannot at all lessen the justness of this censure, and only the universal satisfaction over the results of the election can cause it to be forgotten...
...attention and to be interested (if they did this they would be obliged to read well), then both the advantage and the enjoyment of the course would be doubled. It is somnambulistic and apathetic reading that has tended this year to spoil the pleasure, even if it could not lessen the profit, of Mr. Child's admirable instructions in Shakespeare...
...Yale has been too well shown to be questioned; and from the interest in that race all other races, such as this one with Columbia, will seriously detract. Too much caution cannot be taken to keep the Yale race distinct from all others, and to avoid everything which will lessen its importance. Therefore, while we are glad that Columbia and Harvard are to meet on the water again this year, we must say we hope it will be for the last time, whatever the result; and we would earnestly deprecate anything which shall hereafter encroach upon what we all regard...