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...eight-hour system would lessen the number of unemployed, and diminish social dangers. Report of N. J. Bureau of Statistics for 1886, p. 228. Gunton, supra...
This evil has already done so much harm at Harvard that anything which would be likely to lessen or sweep it away should be encouraged by all means...
...seniors will be gone and it will devolve upon eighty-nine to continue the labors which have been begun so courageously and borne so faithfully. There is in this change all the stamina of a movement which has right upon its side and its power is one which cannot lessen, but must increase with every day. There are times in the affairs of men when resolutions are necessary. At such times those who adhere to the past, perish miserably. We are living on the brink of a social revolution. Now is the time to make real merit the basis...
...course there is absolutely no means of judging of the relative powers of the ancients and the moderns in the "noble art of self-defence." That the ancients, especially the Greeks, did box, and that most savagely, we know. So far from using gloves to lessen the damaging effects of their blows, or even from using simply the power that nature and training had given to their bare fists, they increased this by tying strips of hard bulls hide round them when clinched, and sometimes even attached nails and lead buckles to these to make their blows more deadly. They...
...record which was made by our nine then, and moreover, they can never think of that season without remembering how great was Mr. Nichols' share in bringing about its measure of success. The combination of accidents which made his work less effective a year ago has done nothing to lessen the popular confidence which he so justly possesses. We would assure Mr. Nichols that if his decision was reconsidered, his reappearance upon the ball field a representative of his Alma Mater would be welcomed with hearty enthusiasm...