  We examine several ``landmarks'' for the effects of the tensor interaction on
the properties of light nuclei. These were usually discussed in the context of
small-space shell-model calculations. We show, using $G$ matrices derived from
a realistic nucleon-nucleon potential, that when the model space is small
(e.g., $0\hbar\omega$), these effects are overestimated, indicating that the
tensor interaction is too strong. However, when larger spaces are used, there
is a diminishing of these effects, which, in general, leads to better agreement
with experiment.
