Word: diminisher
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...moment grant, it seems to me radically unfair that the minor sports should be the only ones to suffer. It has always been urged against intercollegiate athletics that only a small number of men were able to participate. The proposed arrangement would increase, rather than diminish, this difficulty. We then come back to the original question: Is this the most satisfactory solution? Emphatically...
...Colleges in New England at Cambridge, December 6, 1907, voted, to send to the various colleges represented in the association the following expression of opinion: That an exaggerated amount of attention is now being given to intercollegiate athletic contests in most of the New England colleges, and that to diminish this exaggeration the most effective measure would be a large reduction in the number of intercollegiate contests...
Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in the Auditorium of the Brown Union reports of committees will be read by Horace E. Deming '71 and others. At 3 o'clock there will be round-table conferences on the subjects "Is it Desirable or Practicable to Diminish or Exclude the Influence of the National Parties and Issues in Municipal Contests," and "Electoral Reform...
...game of football. One of the greatest criticisms that is heard at the present time against the game is that it is too rough and of no use to us after we leave college. Both of these facts are, of course, falsehoods, but that does not in any way diminish the harm they do in the popular mind...
...negro must learn to honor manual labor, for this is merely the foundation of higher civilization. Crime is committed only by vagrants and by the ignorant. In order to better conditions in the South and to diminish racial feeling, the leaders of the blacks must gain self-control and must not become embittered, for such men lose a large percentage of their power to accomplish good. It is not by racial hatred that the great problem which confronts us today is to be solved, it is by co-operation between the two races...