Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Harvard has steadily decreased the number of courses required for a degree since the advent of the tutorial system, University Hall has made no effort whatever to lighten the burden of those few men in each class who seek to complete their work in three years...
...delivered by John S. White '69, of the Senior Class. Then Clifford inducted President Eliot into the office, and the new President replied, I will take up this weighty charge with a deep sense of insufficiency, but yet with youthful hope, and a good courage. High examples will lighten the way. The University is strong in the ardor and self-sacrifices of its teachers, in the vigor and wisdom of the Corporation and Overseers, and in the public spirit of the community. Above all, I devote myself to the sacred work, in the firm faith that...
There can be no doubt that the President intends to lighten the teaching burden of the members of the faculty in order to give them more time for research. And since it is the tutorial system which has been responsible for the existing situation, the prevailing suspicion is that tutorial work is slated for curtailment. The tutorial system has labored under the handicap of being a new-fangled appendage to an old machine, and its recognition by many of the older professors has been grudging. Yet in the space of a decade or so, it has achieved a remarkable degree...
...handsome lord and an innocent miller's daughter, a doubtful marriage, a father's curse, a self-sacrificing lover, an heroic halfwit, and-a happy ending. Flitting in and out of the story is Pittances Green, clown extraordinary, whose puns and drolleries, no less than his outlandish costumes, lighten the play tremendously. The versatile Phillip Bourneuf plays the part to perfection...
...least one of the features that makes Harvard an intellectually stimulating college persists in the Summer School. A variety of programs, lectures, concerts, and entertainment lighten the summer, and this year more than ever before diversion of a high calibre has been brought to students without expense...