Word: diminisher
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...already said, in order not to diminish very materially the chance which the crew has of winning the race, the crew must go to New London next week. To do this it has got to have four hundred dollars. Is there enough patriotism left in the college to raise this...
...probable that the number of candidates for the freshman ball team will further diminish until out-of-door work shall make it possible to select a team provisionally. There are now about twenty men in regular training...
...people recognize that it is better to patronize institutions already in existence. Our surplus of colleges has threatened to become a nuisance. Were our efforts confined to improving our most powerful universities, we might well hope to rival the German universities. Even New England has found it profitable to diminish her small number of educational institutions. In the last decade the number of her colleges has decreased by three; New York has lost two. In the Southern States, twenty-three colleges have died out, while the number of students has increased eleven hundred...
...Intercollegiate athletic contests bring out a man's college feeling more effectually than anything else can, and to abolish them in a college would be very perceptibly to diminish the interest of the students in that college as a whole by removing one of the most effective and legitimate means of arousing their loyalty to it. As I say, I shall be very much surprised and disappointed if the faculty see fit to pass the resolutions...
...negative. He said if men were hurt in championship games, they were just as liable to injury in practice games. If the other colleges were given up and the number of games between Harvard and Yale were increased, the interest would be lessened, and the attendance would diminish. In case of a dispute, the representatives would disagree and a deadlock would be the consequence, and neither would be willing to submit to arbitration. When the question was thrown open to the house, a large number availed themselves of the opportunity. The following gentlemen spoke in favor of the affirmative...