Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...before the effects of the change will be fully felt. The friends of Latin, Greek and Mathematics will be sorry to see the advanced electives in these subjects slowly thin out. Harvard is already accused of perverting and vitiating the degree of Bachelor of Arts; and we should be loosen to lose the advantage we now hold of offering advanced specialized instruction in Classics and Mathematics superior to that of any other college in America...
...means of diluting the stuff, however, he is obliged to use it full strength, at the risk of actually becoming robust. In dining, when excessively hungry, he has been known to look at a lily in a glass of water for fully five minutes, and then waddle away and loosen his waistcoat. But such gluttony is very rare with the great aesthete, and ordinarily a hasty glance at a photograph of a sandwich is all he feels warranted in taking. By the exercise of constant care he thus avoids overloading the stomach. The great man will lecture through the country...