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...very far distant when the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and others, will also partake in it; thus in place of the time-honored Harvard-Columbia boat-race, substituting an inter collegiate regatta, such as was held at Saratoga in '74, '75 and '76. All this tends to lessen the importance and interest in the Harvard Yale 'varsity races which have hitherto held, and should always hold, first place among the boat-races of this country...
...first discoveries in Persian Cuneiform, at the beginning of the century, by Grotefend, Lessen, Rawlinson and others, and the gradual decipherment of the second and third columns of the trilingual inscription of Behistun - the Median and Assyrian...
...conclusion I have only to say that Capt. Mumford did all in his power to lessen the expenses of the crew; and I also desire to thank those who kindly helped in the wearisome task of collecting subscriptions, especially Mr. Amory, '88; Mr. Paine, '88; Mr. Spaulding, '88; Mr. Forbes, '89; and Mr. Bush...
...little for the current expenses. For the past two years the debt has not increased, and if the college will make an effort and pay off the existing debt this year, the club will be enabled in future to carry on their affairs on a cash basis, which will lessen the actual expenses, prevent tradesmen from charging interest on delayed bills, and will do away with all chance of forming a new debt...
...education which is absolutely essential to one who desires to be considered a cultured gentleman. Everyone must know how mortifying it is to have people talk to you about men of whom you have never heard or of books which you have never read. Why then should opportunities to lessen the number of those books and men, and so strengthen the mind, be cast aside for the sake of a boyish bravado or a sometime fashionable negligence...