Word: detractor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Without attempting to take up the cudgels in behalf of either the advisory committee on boating or their unknown detractor in the Boston Herald, it seems no more than proper to say a few words about this dispute. To Harvard men it has doubtless seemed unfortunate that it should be given such prominence in the press of Boston. While we fully believe in the dissemination of news, college as well as general, through the medium of the press, there is nothing more deplorable than the tendency of that medium to emphasize and make capital out of personal attacks. Nothing...