Word: lessening
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...weeks of the College year, the sales to date being larger by about 15 per cent, than for the corresponding period of last year. The number of members is also larger by about 200 than at this time in 1906. The sole purpose of the Co-operative is to lessen the cost of living to members of the University, and the Society has endeavored, in every reasonable manner, to achieve this...
...regular stands around the track will be erected this year for the Yale game, and low bleachers will be built behind each of the goals. The seats on top of the Stadium will not be as high as they have been in the past, in order to lessen the danger in their case also...
...state from passing into another. Owing to the great demand for white factory hands in the South and to a lack of inspectors, conditions are such that large numbers of very young children are found employed in factories. It is the purpose of the Consumers' League to lessen these evils as far as possible...
...cases the Oriental secretiveness so often complained of by our missionaries is the result of the latters' religious snobbishness. Such people should recall the utter lack of religious or political bitterness in the attitude of Christ, who believed that a passionate love of the world at large need not lessen one's love for the world at home...
...Yale game. This is true, only one instance can be sighted, the rest were hidden. The recent resolution of the Rules Committee in Philadelphia has shown that even authorities on the subject admit the existence of brutality. It is worded "to eliminate the chances of rough play, and to lessen brutality." If the negative can support the arguments which they have brought forward they are supporting football in the face of overwhelming evils. The negative say that football players learn to do and succeed. They do learn to succeed at all costs, and by methods far from divine...