Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...abundance of candidates for fall rowing this season has necessitated these additions to the coaching staff in order to ensure everyone a fair share of coaching and to lessen the danger of keeping good men in inferior crews where they would go backward rather than advance in ability...
...Allusion has been made to the nation that has prepared elaborately for war. One of the great objects of all men who desire peace is to reduce the armament of Europe, to lessen the extent of preparation for war. But among their most cherished plans is that of forbidding the sale of munitions by a neutral nation to a belligerent, which would have exactly the opposite effect. It would put a premium on preparedness, for when war broke out the unprepared munitions abroad, would be in a hopeless condition against its neighbor armed to the teeth. If we want...
...compromise between President Lowell and the Student Council, represented by a special committee composed of W. H. Trumbull, Jr., '15, president of the Student Council, D. Kimball '15, and C. H. Smith '15, chairman of the committee on scholarship. The purpose of the new regulations is to lessen the liability of men going on probation, and to afford a fairer opportunity than the present oral examination gives. The recommendations as passed by the Faculty read...
...sound physique who have gone through five months of careful training. And, in my opinion, much investigation will have to be made before the question is decided one way or the other. In regard to changing the distance to three miles I do not believe it would lessen the strain on the men as the pace would naturally be more severe over the shorter course and the results would be about the same. I feel very strongly in favor of retaining the four-mile race, as a crew to win must know how to row and cannot rely entirely...
...sympathy which America feels for the sufferers of war-stricken Europe. Possibly some few may have given yesterday more from a desire to dodge the assiduous taggers than from the sincerest philanthropic motives. Yet we in America were less than human if we should have failed to attempt to lessen in some measure the inexpressible misery and despair which on this very day exists in the trenches and through the country-sides of Belgium and of Poland...