Word: dampen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unworthy of any Harvard graduate, however little he may represent graduate opinion. A more inopportune attack could not have been made by the outside press. Undergraduates are ready to support their team in the face of an unfavorable outlook, and it hardly behooves a graduate paper to attempt to dampen their ardor by throwing cold water at the last moment. Ordinarily we should not call attention to such an article, but since this has come before the outside public, it devolves upon undergraduates to show by their attitude that this premature apology was neither authoritative nor representative...