Word: diminished
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee of the University of Pennsylvania was held last evening at the house of Chairman John C. Bell to pass resolutions instructing Pennsylvania's representatives at the football convention which is to be held next Saturday. The recommendation of the committee was that rules should be adopted which would diminish the frequency of mass plays rather than abolish them altogether. The committee also favored rules which would secure more kicking, either by decreasing the number of downs, or by increasing the distance to be gained...
...gret development of athletic sports at American colleges within the past twenty-five years, the President says: "If the evils of athletic sports are mainly those of exaggeration and excess, it ought not to be impossible to point out and apply appropriate checks. The following changes would certainly diminish the existing evils: (1) There should be no freshman intercollegiate matches or races; (2) no games, intercollegiate or other, should be played on any but college flelds, belonging to one of the competitors, in college towns; (3) no professional student should take part in any intercollegiate contests; (4) no student should...
...develope themselves, to increase their taste and their refinement, certainly this will not mean a poorer grade of men. However men fail to recognize that they have any responsibility as to the luxury that is theirs, if they take it simply to enjoy it, then it must of coursed diminish the necessity of energy on their part. The less calls for action a man responds to, the less strength he acquires. There is danger in all this luxury, danger that the weaker men will go down before it, but, if we use it like men, then it must help...
...stormy weather of yesterday was a drawback on the success of the hare and hounds run and tended to diminish the usual large attendance. However, about twenty five men turned out and enjoyed the sport. A good trail was laid by J. Manley '93 and J. L. Coolidge '95 who acted as hares. The paper led across different yards down to the Charles river, through Allston, where the hounds had some difficulty in following the scent. Thence the trail crossed through Brighton, Brookline and around the reservoir, terminating at the Cambridge end of the Harvard bridge. A. L. Endicott...
...XLIX, 425. - (a). This can be done only by reducing the requirements in time and expense: Atl. Mo., LXVI, 196. - (b). The standard is now too exacting: Pres. Eliot's Rep. 88-89. p. 21; Harv. Mo., XI, 127-137. - (c). Without relief the number of college graduates will diminish...