Word: detracted
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...present Harvard Square and its envirous offer only its sidewalks to the noctural Hegira from Central Square and North Cambridge. A local theatre would serve to welcome this class, which now has no place of congregation. The theatre would detract largely from the academic dignity and repose which at present is hardly holding its own against constant inroads, and it would complicate the already confused lives of the student body...
There is only one consideration to detract from the righteous joy of all self-appointed administrators of the law: University 4 will not recognize their credentials...
...construct a fitting war memorial makes a combination of aims appear the happiest release from a difficult situation. The addition of any sort of bell-tower or purely memorial structure to the already polymorphic architecture of the Yard would merely increase the existing aesthetic confusion, a circumstance which would detract appreciably from the dignity of its purpose. A larger and more beautiful chapel would both serve the end of a memorial and avoid the stigma of utilitarianism...
...memory is not at fault, the original architect was John La Farge, a considerable part of whose plan was embodied in stone. One regrets that a page of TIME should carry what is at least unfair, even if not inaccurate. Doubtless you understand that I do not wish to detract from the fame of Mr. Cram. I know you wish to present the truth and the whole truth...
...successful one, however, and his conception of Mrs. Pampinell's efforts to disclose the hidden genius of the members of the favored circle by means of amateur theatricals is shrewdly presented. He misses his purpose of satire in his desire for the ridiculous; yet this lapse does not detract from the spectators enjoyment of the mishaps that befall the amateur actors...