Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although the expenses of travelling to and from the Orient are naturally large, the salary paid and the necessities supplied would lessen the cost considerably. The American Board, 14 Beacon street, Boston, provides all the fixed expenses, including room, board, heat, light, laundry and so forth. In some exceptional case the Board may give a salary, although it makes no official provision for it. Twenty positions may be obtained for one year by college graduates through the liberal policy of this Board...
...same period, all of the above stores have declared a higher dividend than at the Harvard Co-operative. This may be accounted for in part by the fact that the Co-operative not only declares a dividend on the total purchases of members but also attempts wherever practicable to lessen prices to non-members. On the other hand, while the following table shows that the Yale dividend was 15 per cent, this merely represents the reduction made in the price to members at the time of the sale. No cash dividend is paid on total sales...
...higher and healthier standard of scholarship. There is little doubt that frequent hour examinations which will constitute the most important factor in the determination of grades will result in more regular and systematic work. We do not believe it is unreasonable to suppose that such an innovation will lessen the evils of professional tutoring, for students doing their work in smaller quantities and by degrees would not find it necessary or expedient to resort to the professional tutor in preparing for examinations. What constitutes under the present system a strenuous eleventh-hour "cramming" would become under the proposed scheme...
...regular hour examinations at frequent intervals be substituted, the mid-year and final examinations being counted much less than at present in making up the grades in a course. Under such a system regular study would take the place of irregular and uncertain endeavor; more regularity in work would lessen the evils of professional tutoring; and the man who for any good reason did poorly in his final test could not claim that any injustice had been done, for marks would be based upon work done throughout a course. Under such a system there would be an increase of work...
...point as in previous boats. The new shell embodies some of the lessons Mr. Crane learned in designing hydroplanes. Although it is square, it is so built that it will drag the least possible water astern. The fact that it is seven feet shorter than previous boats will materially lessen the skin resistance. Mr. Crane is convinced of the superiority of the new design from the result of many tests made in the government testing tank, at Washington, D. C. In these tests models of one of the old shells, properly weighted, were compared with models of various new types...