Word: lessening
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...looking after their own expenditures. If students are willing to expend $6,000 or $10,000 a year on the crew, even so powerful a body as an Athletic Committee cannot stop them. If, in their solicitude for the size of students' purses, the Committee honestly desires to lessen the expenditures of the Boat Club, why not recommend to the corporation that the use of the boat house be granted rent free? At present, the reckless students pay the college $500 a year for it, almost as much as the expense of a coach. Here is a great opportunity...
...railways don't pay, while innumerable hotels become bankrupt, and the enormous sums invested in these enterprises are absolutely lost. The loss in patriotism, character, contentment, and domestic happiness is even greater. The more we enrich our neighbors by our folly, the more we increase their power and lessen...
...west end. This arrangement will only be a temporary one, and will greatly benefit all members of the association, as it will obviate the present necessity of using the same seat twice the same meal, and as sixty-two men will be accommodated by it, it will materially lessen the price of board. The Directors realized that certain inconveniences will attend this new arrangement, but as the benefits derived will so far outweigh these inconveniences, that they would call upon all members to cooperate with them, and make the hall a greater success than ever...
...might be followed here, but abetter plan would be to put the matter in the hands of the Co-operative Stociety. As the cost of the balls is one of the most expensive items in the game of tennis, any effort on the part of the tennis association to lessen this expense would be appreciate by the students...
...other inmates of the library. Such complaints, although probably exaggerated, have more or less foundation, for it is certainly unpleasant to be interrupted in one's study by the carelessness of a few. A little attention to the convenience of all on the part of a few, will materially lessen the annoyance which the continual moving about of a small number of persons is sure to cause...