Word: detractions
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...letter, Levy and Maull wrote that Harvard should not impose "moral" standards on outside firms and that such a move would increase costs and detract from the University's educational mission...
When professors sign on to work for Harvard, they contract the exclusive use of their teaching and knowledge in exchange for access to the resources of the University, material compensation and academic prestige. While research and speaking tours are certainly meaningful and productive endeavors, to the extent that they detract from professors' teaching engagements and availability to Harvard students' needs, they should be curtailed, or at least regulated by the University. Consequently, we support the University's efforts to revise the faculty "Gray Book" to reflect this obligation...
...brand-new facility should help the tennis program gain national recognition. The 500-person seating capacity does not detract from the intimate feeling at the Beren Center, but it certainly has the potential of transforming Crimson tennis into a popular attraction...
...pair of Miss Prism (Ruth Markind) and Chasuble (Robert Astyk) seem less intent to explore their capacity to amuse, so their characterizations remain more conventional and far less boldly interpreted, though not to the point that they detract from the overall style of the ensemble effort. We almost welcome the benign and believable sense of normalcy they add in counterpoint to the wild posturing that takes place in nearly every other nook and cranny of the stage area, as designed by Kevin Lair. Lair's ambitious but simple set adds an attractive visual component to the plot. The play itself...
...there is hope in the unbrokenness of youth, freshness in the ability to dream. The boy in the center does not seem to notice the despair around him; he is focused and content with his newspaper. He does not let the fact that it is crumpled and torn detract from the content which it holds. Shahn captures the life and hope of children as they embrace the world with a boldness free of despair. Shahn documents this capturing of life, at its fullest even when circumstances are at their worst. And this documentation of history takes us beyond facts...