Word: lightened
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...RELIGIOUS society in Brookline have offered prayers for the Faculty of Harvard College. One of their requests is that the Faculty may lighten the work of the students...
...place on the part of the Professor; but if Mr. Child, who has probably been hardened by long tribulation, has decided to pay no attention to this point, it would still be well for those who take the elective next year to make up their minds to lighten his weight and their own, by putting a little more life into the recitations, and trying to find pleasure in what they read. It is strange that so many who think it worth while to take a course in Shakespeare should not think it also worth while to take an interest...
...make the day as successful as possible, no visitor must be allowed to experience the slightest inconvenience, disappointment, or embarrassment. Although certain general arrangements can be made to lighten individual responsibility, the success of the day must largely depend on the tact and forethought of each student...
...party go for nearly half fare; but when several car-loads of Harvard students go to the Regatta at Springfield, full fare both ways is charged. Would it be asking too much of the next Regatta Committee to endeavor to make such arrangements with the railroads as to lighten somewhat the attack on the already depleted student pocket...
Where the red ashes lighten the gloom...