Word: detractions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Chemistry midterms and last minute papers may detract from the holiday spirit, many Houses try to combat academically fueled apathy with unique seasonal traditions--traditions that have remained, albeit with some changes, slightly adjusted in the face of randomization...
That's what we are, real people. We don't have to be a partner in a firm or save the world from anything. We can graduate, get a job, get married and have kids--and we won't be failures. And in no way does this detract from the fact that we are still a part of this institution and are here to make what we choose of the many lessons Harvard has to offer. If anything, it reinforces...
...linking restricted access to a sense of House community. Only Eliot folks can get into Eliot House, the argument goes, creating cohesion by exclusion. But the fact that a best friend or significant other no longer has to be let in at the door isn't likely to detract from House spirit...
...character, has him pedanticallyexplain the morality of the situation and thendrops him. But the book survives. It remains amoving portrait of the confusion and surreality ofwartime and of a little boy lost. If, ultimately,it is more interesting as an artifact of Calvino'syouth, that does not detract from its merit as anovel...
...consist of food." What follows is a discussion that employs hot dogs as its central motif; the paragraph ends with Norretranders asserting, "Consciousness does not consist of hot dogs but consists of hot dogs that have been apprehended. That is far less complex." Even if such an example does detract from the author's previously-established scientific authority, is nevertheless inspires a welcome bit of comic relief...