Word: detract
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...undergraduates, the majority of whom are honest, they can and do remain personally indifferent to what machinery is set up to prevent cribbing, as has been proved at Yale. On the other hand, the policy of no supervision is merely a concession to the minority, those who detract from the value of education and are themselves least in accord with the desired scholastic attitude...
Harvard is grateful. After having been told repeatedly that Harvard men are merely Ph.D.'s and section men it is comforting to be approached on the subject on one's personal glamour. The fact that many other colleges and universities are receiving the same honor does not detract from its value, for while a Yale movie star is conceivable even the cheeriest enthusiast has heretofore failed to prophesy a Harvard cinema idol...
...Baldwin and Robert V. Massey, in effect: "The physical improvements which the railroads have instituted the past few years make railroading easier and safer than theretofore. Eastern roads earned on the average 5.13% upon their investments last year, 2.76% in 1921 and 5.74% in 1916. This wage increase will detract from these meagre dividends and repel investors." The decision means that $4,000,000 must be deducted from the Pennsylvania Railroad's profits, that each of its 10,000,000 shares of stock (par value $50) surrenders 40? of his dividends. The Erie's wage tax increases...
...business experience gained from the CRIMSON competition has been declared by former members of the Business department to be highly practical and valuable after college. The time required does not detract a great deal from a candidate's academic work...
...imagined, the possibility that the League can or will adjudicate the rights of Abyssinia seemed dwindling to a remote infinitesimal. Subsequently both the British and Italian Governments made sheep's eyes, despatched letters to the League Secretariat declaring that their mutual agreement "cannot," according to the British letter, "detract from the rights of the Abyssinian Government which may take such decision as it may think fit or limit the possible action of third parties...