Word: detractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...