Word: detract
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Just so much the more, then, is Yale University fortunate in its recent acquisition of the new Harkness Memorial. The group of buildings have been exceptionally handled in every phase of workmanship; even the fact that they cover a city block does not detract from their gracefulness, divided as they are into separate quadrangles and courts after the fashion of Oxford and old Cambridge. What is more interesting still, these same buildings, besides being excellent examples of architectural beauty, are consigned to a useful existence as dormitories. In this way yale's problem of housing all the students in college...
...rise in grandeur, as it were, from the very heart of the Freshman dormitories, and dominate the entire surroundings by their size and height. They serve a utilitarian purpose to be sure but hardly an artistic one. And yet they must needs remain although it is obvious that they detract rather than add to the scenery...
...vote of the University Debating Council the suggestion that the dual inter-coast debate with the University of Washington be transformed into a triangular has been rejected. This decision to keep the debate strictly dual was made partly on the grounds that such a move would detract materially from the east-and-west spirit and partly from the difficulty of giving intensive training to a larger number of men at a time so long after the close of the regular season...
...other piece of sculpture is a Greek head, probably the head of a warrior. The lower part of the face is missing, but this does not seem to detract from the great beauty of the whole. The delicate, yet firm and sure modelling, the nobility of expression place the head undoubtedly as the work of a master of the Great Period; the work probably dates from the second half of the fifth century...
...spring it was thought that the general Harvard Memorial would not get under way for several years, in which case subscriptions for the two memorials would not have been conflicting. As a matter of fact, the big memorial is now under way, and it would be a mistake to detract any subscriptions at all from...