Word: lightens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...already proved most successful. The greater economy of the athletic organization and the more careful management resulting from the committee's supervision have already demonstrated its usefulness. The arrangement for balancing the deficiencies of one organization by the surpluses of the others is especially good, and will greatly lighten the burden of maintaining the clubs hitherto supported wholly by subscription. By the amendments, also, the control of the committee over the various clubs is extended and made more than simply advisory. The changes are such as will be approved...
Today marks the beginning of the semi-annual examinations, a period in which our college life assumes its most dismal aspect. The annoyances consequent upon the presence of the mid-years are not few; and it is to lighten these in some slight degree that the CRIMSON volunteers the following advice to the more thoughtless of our little community...
...those waves tossing and tumbling which suggests a wonderful power of description in the writer. An admirable poem on Fate follows this and shows a depth of thought seldom exhibited in college poetry. "Unappreciated Talent" is a Seri-comic story written in a very bright vein and serves to lighten up the solemnity which the preceding articles give the paper...
...countenance have surely grown sufficiently strong in their three years of hard study to make their portraits taken in November and December as worthy a field for the physiognomist's investigation as they would be if taken in April or May. Take this heart, members of '88, and lighten the labors of your Photographic Committee...
...colleges, men don't know much about Christianity. In Scotland they are brought up on religion and see more of the questions which puzzle American students. Christ's yoke is no bondage as many men think. What is a yoke for? A yoke is a wooden collar intended to lighten the ox's burden. So Christ's yoke is put upon us to help us, not to retard us, If we take things as Christ took them, the yoke will be easy, and the burden light; but if we follow our own way, we will find it difficult to resist...