Word: lessened
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Board of Overseers wish to put such restrictions upon us as practically to do away with all contests with outsiders. They think they have found the best way to accomplish this; but if they think that such a scheme will promote the cause of general athletics and materially lessen the evils which they imagine arise from intercollegiate contests, we venture to say they will find they are mistaken. It they wish to reduce Harvard University to the level of a boarding school and treat the students as mere striplings, well and good; but we are inclined to think the boarding...
...bill is urged by politicians in order to catch the Grand Army vote.- 2. It is a scheme to lessen the surplus and thus maintain the tariff.- 3. It will increase the present great army of thieves and plunderers of the treasury: Public Opinion, II, 370-3; Nation, 40, p, 172; Nation, 43, p. 48; Vest's speech...
...beaten. We also congratulate the college at large, for with such a team at Mott Haven our chances for one event are pretty well assured. The class tug-of-war teams that have pulled against '88 must acknowledge that they have had worthy adversaries, and that fact ought to lessen the bitterness of defeat. With our congratulations go our best wishes for success at Mott Haven. Eighty-eight can boast that, in one thing at least, she has been unsurpassed...
...laborer; all is self-interest, which does not hesitate to destroy the prosperity of the whole country. Protection has changed greatly since the days when it professed merely to protect young industries. After a century of protection the duties are higher than ever before, and every attempt to lessen them is defeated by powerful combinations, whose opposition President Cleveland courageously faced in his message. The only remedy for the surplus is the reduction of the tariff, and, in the words of one of Senator Sherman's earlier speeches, "every advance toward free exchange is a benefit to the country...
...eight-hour system would lessen the number of unemployed, and diminish social dangers. Report of N. J. Bureau of Statistics for 1886, p. 228. Gunton, supra...