Word: lessening
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...much to be said in favor of smattering in knowledge. Reproach can properly attach to the smatterer only when in the arrogance of half-knowledge, he attempts judgments only open to the specialist. Every man to a certain extent must be a smatterer. It may be necessary to lessen the preponderance of time given to the classics in a liberal education. This many are ready to admit. But that the common ground of studies prior to the college course should be altogether broken up, that all educated men are to be marked out as specialists even from their cradles...
...seemed to me that the question of competition in athletics has had considerable underlying influence in the formation of regulations. This is one of the points upon which the faculty and the undergraduates seem to differ. It is perhaps desirable, as the faculty appear to wish, to lessen the element of competition. But can the faculty do this and at the same time accomplish what is generally accepted as their aim, viz.: promote athletic interests, or perhaps, rather, to save them? Is there not a direct opposition in the two ideas, lower the competitive element, and support the interests...
Nearly every intercollegiate boat-race in this country has been won at the end of the third mile. The result has been a "procession" for the fourth mile, or a desperate attempt on the part of the defeated crew to retrieve themselves. The consequent tendency has been to lessen the interest in college boating, or to endanger the health of the participants from over-exertion and heart-strain. Therefore...
...would be well for some of the freshmen at Memorial Hall to remember that they should not lessen the reputation for dignity which the hall has obtained; to remember also that what may be amusing to any of them at one table may be annoying to those who happen to be sitting within hearing distance. To be sure, nothing very serious has happened as yet, but, if any license is allowed for bovish pranks and undignified conduct, there is no limit to which this abuse may not extend. It would be a pity for visitors in the gallery to witness...
...certainly much more disagreeable for those who are already at work to be disturbed by the moving about of the late comer. Examinations in themselves are far from pleasant, but under existing circumstances they are a necessity, and we ought to do all in our power to lessen the trials and tribulations incumbent upon them. A little care and attention to the wishes of the instructors in this respect, will do away with at least one disagreeable feature of the present system...