Word: detractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aside from the difficulty of raising a $10,000,000 endowment fund to pay all of the University athletic expenses which as a matter of fact would prove far less inseparable than one imagines the plan itself has weaknesses that detract from its rather idyllic beauty. The feeling of exclusiveness which even now enhances the value of Harvard Yale game tickets would become almost painful if everything depended on invitation-although the people eligible for invitations would be just the same ones who may now secure their tickets by application. And the sordid, commercial value of tickets would be enhanced...
Since the new position of the statue is more central its presence will add rather than detract from the appearance of the Yard. The slightly inaccurate historical impression that the statue gives as to the early history of the college will not disturb the visitor from parts unknown more now than before. Many natives even now are blissfully ignorant of the fact that the statue is not modelled after John Harvard, but after a much later Harvard graduate, and that John Harvard himself only bequeathed books instead of actually founding the college. But whatever his history, it is only fitting...
...notice into new hands. An oil scandal, topped by an ex-President's death, helped to crowd it out of a place in the public eye. Even more, the change in the relation between the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation (TIME, Jan 14, 21) seemed to detract from the importance of the fact that President Coolidge last week designated T. V. O'Connor, of Buffalo-for over two years a member of the Shipping Board-as its Chairman...
...experimental evidence whatever; the treatise is purely philosophical and deductive, reminding one of the works of the Phlogistonists of the sixteenth century, but based even more upon unproven postulates. Mr. Page's utter disregard for the scientific distinction between hypothesis, theory, and law, and his garbled manner of exposition detract from the philosophical as well as from the scientific value of his work...
...fact that the University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Hopkins, Lehigh, Swarthmore, Stevens, and several other colleges have adopted it as a major sport. At both Annapolis and West Point it has been found advisable to play the lacrosse games before the baseball games in order not to materially detract from the attendance at the latter...