Word: lightens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...least, says nothing in an attractive manner; if it disregards another, we may find the reason in some defect which for the time or forever condemns him to oblivion. If Mr. Jones had but little joy in his life we can but grieve for him. It will not lighten his pain, now that he is dead, if his volume be thumbed ever so eagerly. But Mr. Perry makes no attempt to screen his new god's defects, and in the end he leaves us to judge if after all it be not a real...
...more justly. As a rule, it will be easier to decide whether a blue book is fair or good than it will be to determine the exact per cent. which it deserves. For this reason then the Conference Committee recommended the change. Of course, if the design was to lighten the examination, the best way would be, as our correspondent says, to lower the passing mark...
...their argument lies in the fact that they simply change the robe of the evil instead of the evil itself. The burden of the examination still remains. They might as well ask the instructor to mark the books with a red pencil instead of a blue one. It would lighten the weight of the examination just as much...
Prof. Francis William Newman has recently published a Latin translation of Robinson Cruso, under the title "Rebelius Crusoe; a book to lighten tedium to the learner of Latin...
...hearty reception any entertainment given by Harvard men always receives in Boston, and the proposed concert would be no exception in such a music loving city. It will also give the men in college another chance to hear these two much appreciated clubs. Moreover, any plan which will lighten the present burden of subscriptions, cannot but be hailed with delight by the students in Cambridge. The plan is certainly a good one, no matter in what way you choose to look...