Word: detracts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...steady growth of more than ten years under the careful, skillful training of Mr. Locke. In the time of early, compulsory chapel the music was enough to freeze a man's soul; now it is an excellent aid in the work of the chapel. We do not mean to detract from the value of the ministerial work done; we only say that the music is an excellent supplement to that work. If more men would take the trouble to find out what goes on in chapel there would be a much better appreciation of both the music and the ministerial...
...Second. Because such legislation will, if allowed to stand, check the healthy competition for places on foot-ball teams by restricting the area of competition, will thus decrease the present widespread interest in the game, detract largely from its character, and hamper its normal development as a university sport...
...doubted whether or not this increased interest is going to benefit the University and class crews. Such rowing as is developed at the Harvard Rowing Club would need a good deal of remodelling before it could be worked into shape for the University crew. But this does not detract from the usefulness of the club. However important the University teams may be, it is hardly fair that they should monopolize all the interests of the college. The chief advantage of the Boat House is that it offers this means of healthy, out-of-door exercise to the great body...
...Wilcox is a smoothly written story of excellence in the descriptions. The closing passage, portraying the vast snow covered plain and the bursting into flame of Ornoff's love, is notably effective. The story might be accused of a tendency towards sensationalism, but not sufficiently to detract from its merits...
...principal editorial of the number very sensibly points out that an introduction of the hotel system at Memorial next year would make club tables an impossibility, and seriously detract from the advantages of the hall as a boarding place. Other editorials are concerned with the interscholastic football league, the standing of special students in the Law School, the graduate department and the summer schools...