Word: detract
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...yesterday's track meet were gratifying, and in some of the field events, most surprising. On the whole, however, the weaknesses which had been predicted were found to exist: and the scores may be partly explained by the striking numerical inferiority of the game Virginia team. But nothing can detract from the excellent individual performances of a large number of Harvard athletes who have had little previous experience...
...unanimity of feeling for Coolidge will detract from the fun of the convention, but it will make it a great deal easier, too. At the last convention, we had to keep our seats for eleven hours at a stretch, and it was terrifically hot! We had nothing to eat but a few sandwiches and stuff like ginger...
Aside from the difficulty of raising a $10,000,000 endowment fund to pay all of the University athletic expenses which as a matter of fact would prove far less inseparable than one imagines the plan itself has weaknesses that detract from its rather idyllic beauty. The feeling of exclusiveness which even now enhances the value of Harvard Yale game tickets would become almost painful if everything depended on invitation-although the people eligible for invitations would be just the same ones who may now secure their tickets by application. And the sordid, commercial value of tickets would be enhanced...
Since the new position of the statue is more central its presence will add rather than detract from the appearance of the Yard. The slightly inaccurate historical impression that the statue gives as to the early history of the college will not disturb the visitor from parts unknown more now than before. Many natives even now are blissfully ignorant of the fact that the statue is not modelled after John Harvard, but after a much later Harvard graduate, and that John Harvard himself only bequeathed books instead of actually founding the college. But whatever his history, it is only fitting...
...notice into new hands. An oil scandal, topped by an ex-President's death, helped to crowd it out of a place in the public eye. Even more, the change in the relation between the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation (TIME, Jan 14, 21) seemed to detract from the importance of the fact that President Coolidge last week designated T. V. O'Connor, of Buffalo-for over two years a member of the Shipping Board-as its Chairman...