Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Convictorium, and evinced an extended knowledge of the writers on political science. One characteristic of these student socialists which may surprise the reader, is their hatred of violence as a means in attaining their ends. They deplored unanimously the assassination of the Czar as an event which would weaken the cause. Their purpose was a thorough economical education of the laboring classes in order that they might use the ballot intelligently to secure those great reforms so sadly needed. The majority of the students were ardent followers of Carl Marx, and possessed the greatest confidence in the power...
...Stillness," by Mr. Sanborn, distinctly lacks melody, and contains several unmusical halting lines. The feeling is strong and the expression good. "A Second Empedocles," by Mr. Sanford, is, to say the least, a strange effort. It is incongruous and decidedly lacks force. The Latin quotations mar the form and weaken the passion aimed at by the writer. One does not quote a Latin translation of Homer in the death agony; and for a Stoic to die with Horace on his lips provokes undesirable reasoning...
Such a brazen attempt to weaken, in our young minds, the influence of these time-honored sayings of our ancestors is in itself bad enough, and might be enlarged upon to a much greater extent, but that there is another and a more important side to the question. This other side is, perhaps, rather a matter of opinion as to expediency than anything else. If our modern Joshua is to perform his great act every morning, would it not be just as easy for him to do it twenty minutes earlier? It is anything but conducive to good digestion...
...perhaps with a small amount of common sense. In light of these facts, we are even bold enough to suppose, to hope, that the time will be, when President Bartlett and all the other advocates of sole faculty-government will have to abandon their creed entirely, or at least weaken it materially. Amherst, Princeton, and Harvard, have already recognized, or are beginning to recognize, the advisability of student representation and deliberation. Amherst has had a college senate, and yet, very strange to say, Amherst has found the plan successful. In fact, in most of the colleges, a deliberative...
...rank list were respectively thirty-two and twenty-five, and the first twenty-five were very nearly the same in the two courses. Of the two courses in question, if there was any difference in the difficulties present, that difference would favor our position rather than weaken it; for in the harder course the marks ranged the highest. The whole fault then lay in the difference of standards in marking adopted by the different instructors. It is a fact that some of the best courses in college are avoided just because the instructors are " hard markers," -avoided, not only...