Word: lightening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...their ability to show their best form when the important time comes. It is not alone in the Mott Haven training that we have profited by such experience, however, but in all our athletics. Last season's football policy was to vary the routine of practice as well as lighten the training, and that of the rowing authorities is a great change for the better since the time when 'Varsity crew candidates were called out before Christmas and kept in strict training till the race. This more enlightened movement may not immediately result in success, we have no right...
Today is the last day for signing the petition to the Administrative Board to lighten the punishment of those men who were detected in the use of firearms on the night...
...money which accrues from the sale of excursion tickets. The class crews are always in financial distress. They have no way of making money and are obliged to rely on subscriptions for their support. The amount of the subscriptions never equals the expenditure. Instead of trying to lighten the burden of the class crews, the 'Varsity charges each of them the exorbitant entrance fee of thirty dollars. The charge of fifty dollars for the use of the boat house is more reasonable, since the crews get something in return for their money. It would not, however, embarrass the 'Varsity much...
...bearing of the burdens of others, however, is not all that we must do. There are many burdens which cannot be shared; which each must bear for himself. We must have the outer sympathy and bear the inner sorrow; lighten the burdens of others and bear our own. The two are closely related - each is the key of the other...
...CRIMSON and in the Boston papers. On the other hand, these questions add another and a useless burden to the long list of worriments which everybody connected with the practice has to bear. There are but three days more of suspense before the game, and the students should lighten the burden of the captain and his men as much as possible in this brief period...