Word: tighten
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...system of cliques and combinations which tend so strongly to narrow our student life. But this meeting is not in itself enough. If college life is to broaden out into its best form, the college press and every influence which has any place here must excite itself to tighten the bond of real friendship, and to eliminate whatever of hypocrisy and insincerity may now remain among us. Things are started in the right direction and it only remains to keep them going...
...barrier to the desired result. It seems to us clear, therefore, that the ultimate effect of the recent vote of the Athletic committee will simply be to free our intercollegiate athletics from many disagreeable complications such as those which have come into prominence this college year, and to tighten the bonds already existing between Harvard and Yale until they are at last drawn together into a dual league...