Word: detractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reservations adopted by the Senate ought not to hamper the Court, and they ought not to hamper America. It is to be hoped that other countries will agree to them. They are such as to detract from the encouragement which the United States might have given to other countries in their support of the Court, but they are not such as to make it impossible for other countries to accept...
...Loud talking and laughing during Senior Singing each evening, musical Freshmen who decide to accompany the Seniors from the audience, town visitors with wailing balies, and the vociferous younger set of Witherspoon Street who hail themselves together nightly in the belief that this is the Children's Hour, all detract considerably from the enjoyment of those who come to listen, with earnest appreciation, to the singing itself. It seems only fair to the consideration of the latter that the Campus Police, supposedly in disciplinary charge at this time, should keep such disturbances at a minimum...
...point I wish to make is this: the literary style and temper of this anonymous reviewer are lacking in good taste; they detract from the tone of the Bookshelf as a white-checked vest and wing collar spoil the appearance of a quietly well-dressed...
...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...