Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty wishes it to be understood that vacation study is in no way cumpulsory: that it will receive no marks: that it will have no influence on the assignment of scholarships: and that it will not lessen the number of courses required for a degree...
...find nothing in my letter to authorize the interpretation that I thought your first editorial on this subject was intended to lessen the subscriptions to the crew. I have no doubt whatever that the article in question was written in perfectly good faith, and nothing was further from my thoughts, in replying to it, than impugning, in the least, the motives of its author. I only intended to point out the bad effects which such an article might have, and to counteract that effect so far as I was able...
...management of the University crew. This editorial, which was as uncalled for as it was inaccurate, has only served to add one more to the many burdens and embarrassments against which the crew has been obliged to struggle this year, its tendency naturally being to check subscriptions, and to lessen the cordial co-operation and moral support which the crew have a right to expect from the college...
...editorial he mentions cast no reflection upon Captain Storrow, nor was it intended as Mr. Sexton seems to think, to lessen in any degree the subscriptions to the crew. Far from it. It's mission was to advise a cutting down of the expenses a little, so that by greater economy, and with the same or larger subscriptions than last year, all the expenses of the crew may be met and a reduction in the debt begun, instead of an addition made to it, as has too often been the case...
...says: The fact that Dartmouth is situated at a distance from any large town having much rivalry among its tradesmen, would, to a certain extent, prevent our formation of an association run on exactly the same plan: but yet in very many things co-operation among students would greatly lessen expenses. Books, stationery, furniture, coal, tobacco and all such standard goods might, through an association, be procured at wholesale rates, and furnished to students at much lower prices than they are now obliged to pay. The matter is well worth investigation, and a little thought upon it will, we think...