Word: detract
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...person signing himself "W. S - e, '87" (an abbreviation by the way corresponding with the name of no member of '87 in the catalogue) in your issue of Thursday is unworthy of notice, except for the utterly foundless charge that it contains of an "attempt" on my part to detract from the value and extent of the work now being accomplished by the present instructor in elocution." No one appreciates more highly than I the efforts of Mr. Hayes to give a thorough training in the art of expression, but it is evident to all familiar with the facilities afforded...
Your correspondent speaks of "those of the old members who still feel an interest in the study of dramatic expression and desire a higher course of training than that afforded by the elementary courses in elocution." This attempt to detract from the value and extent of the work now being accomplished by the present instructor in elocution puts one in mind of the eager and superficial athlete who wishes to run in the New York athletic games, but considers the daily routine work of the team unworthy of his remarkable powers. When your talented correspondent is older and wiser...
...this practice is allowed to become detrimental to the impartment of a critical knowledge of the said author's works. Short enough time is given in a half course to acquire even a superficial acquaintance with the best writings of our authors of this century; so let us not detract from that short time in order to give undue prominence to matters surely of little importance. When out of but two lectures allotted to a writer, nearly the whole of these two lectures is devoted to a review of all the petty incidents in this writer's life...
...season and renewed strength of wit and literary acumen. We rejoice in the thought that the faculty can now have a few days in which to repair their wasted energies and gird themselves for the semis. We hope that the torture they are about to inflict will not detract from the pleasures of Christmas time. To all we would wish a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...
...previous readings, with the tamer and less exacting productions of Dickens and Longfellow. In the reading last night Mr. Jones seemed to feel greater sympathy for some of his characters than for others. The uneveness, however, if it existed, was but slight, and did not detract from the general good impression derived from the recital. Mr. Jones' series of readings has been an event in the aunals of the college. Its importance is to be shown by the good results it will bring about in furthering the study of dramatic art and the art of expression. It has been shown...