Word: detract
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...value of the appreciation of sport for its own sake could nowhere be better seen than in Saturday's game at Worcester. The University was defeated, 2-1, but it is no "philosophy of defeat", nor does it detract in any way from Holy Cross's ability, to say that anyone who judged the result entirely by the score was getting less than no idea of the game. Fifteen innings of baseball, everywhere spoken of as one of the finest ever seen on a college diamond, featured by brilliant playing on both sides, is an achievement regardless of the score...
...variety of reasons, was not as formidable against Yale as against the University. However, it is equally certain that Yale has a tremendously powerful and aggressive team, which knows football and which plays as a unit. The fact that Aldrich and O'Hearn are stars does not detract from the eleven's team play...
...book on the problem of living, written with a poetic beauty that does-not detract from its soundness. As entirely original contribution is the field of psychoanalysis...
...applause for the quick-witted young hero, the Arlington Players opened the week with the first performance of "Shawn Rhue", an Irish drama in four acts by William L. Murphy. The ups and downs and the honest, Industrious Donovan family progressed all too obviously; but how little that need detract from real melodrama! A large audience was captured to the last row in the second balcony by the Irish brogue, the flow of Irish wit, the good Irish names, and the triumph of Irish ingenuity. So enthusiastic did it become that numerous suggestions were offered the actors from the floor...
...time is necessary to learn how to hang on to the ball that there isn't enough time left to spend on the technique and development of the game. I am opposed to such a change, and I believe most other people feel the same. Such a change would detract attention from the fundamentals of the game, and a football team that doesn't know the fundamentals isn't a football team. As far as the spectators' view-point is concerned, a game without fumbles would not have half the interest that it has now. I can name any number...