Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...suggestion certainly deserves serious consideration, for some of its advantages are obvious. Among other things, it would diminish the number of cases of doubtful eligibility and would tend to keep down the age of the players in a way that would be desirable. We still speak of intercollegiate athletics and we think of our teams as representing, primarily, Harvard College (including the Scientific School), rather than Harvard University. The same, however, does not hold true of some other institutions whose circumstances are not similar to ours, and the study of law is no more a reason in itself against playing...
...race. Gill started the second relay for Pennsylvania and Adams for Harvard. The two remained together almost throughout the half-mile. Gill, however, by a spurt finished almost fifteen yards ahead of Adams. DuBois, who was pitted against Pennsylvania's fastest man, Klahr, was unable to diminish the lead so that when Behr started on the relay for Harvard he was fully twenty yards behind Orton of Pennsylvania. Behr could not gain any on Orton and the last relay finished almost as it began. The time by half-miles follows 1/2 1 1 1/2 2 2m. 1 3/5s...
...Yale faculty has recently provided that every student shall be allowed to take thirty cuts a year without penalty. It also decided that exceptional regularity in attendance at recitations may diminish the number of recitation hours a year in a course, from sixty to fifty-eight. This arrangement will allow candidates for the athletic teams to take a large number of cuts and to make up the deficiency after the close of the athletic season...
...Three Year Plan" by Professor Hall is a remarkably sane and clear presentation of the tendency towards a shortening of the College course. The point that the increased weekly number of lectures necessary to the three-year plan will diminish the hours spent in actual work is well taken. It is a real objection to the shorter course...
...matter of obtaining the degree of A.B. in three years, it appears that the movement to diminish the number of courses needed for the degree has become conspicuous not through Faculty legislation looking to that end, but through natural causes. The cutting out of prescribed courses began in 1890 with Physics A, a course counting towards the degree as two-tenths of a full course. Since then the diminution in courses has been working mainly through the English department. The movement is best typified by the fact that now students who anticipate English a with grade A or B must...