Word: diminisher
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...promote athletic interests, or perhaps, rather, to save them? Is there not a direct opposition in the two ideas, lower the competitive element, and support the interests of athletics? It has always seemed to me that competition is the very coundation upon which all athletics rest. Any thrust which diminishes competition will diminish in exact ratio the amount of interest taken in our sports, and as a direct result the amount of exercise taken by our undergraduates. We hardly like to realize this perhaps, but it is a fact too important to overlook and too evident to contradict. Twenty years...
...position, "is not exposed to the dangers threatening other colleges in connection therewith." There is no tendency to develop a professional or ungenerous spirit. To deprive the baseball nine of its very few games with expert amateurs and professional clubs would seriously impair the efficiency of the team and diminish the interest in general athletic sports. The evils of such a result the faculty regard as worse than any that now come from games with professionals. A standing committee of three members of the faculty, the president being one, has been appointed to attend to all matters pertaining to athletics...
...doubtless thoughtlessly done, yet happening so often in the crowded part of the afternoon, when three or four are waiting for a turn, it seems quite inexcusable. If students would only do the greater part of their disrobing in the dressing rooms, they would of course considerably diminish the amount of time spent in the bath room, and greatly convenience those who are waiting for a turn...
...ball will no longer be continued in close corporation. If such would be the case, the advantages would be readily admitted by all. But we doubt if such would be the case. by lowering the standard we have no chance to beat Yale, and it would immediately work to diminish the interest taken in base-ball. It is known as a fact that if the nine is poor the interest taken is small Therefore if the standard is reduced, base-ball instead of being played by more men will be played by less, and no interest will be taken...
...desire gentlemen to play as well as professionals. Perhaps too much time is spent on base-ball, but it might be spent worse, and we can assure the faculty that unless we have a good nine in the future the game rather than increasing in popularity will diminish and will not be played with a "manly spirit." In regard to doing the best a man can with his powers, we remember a saying of Fox's, the orator, who was a most pains-taking man. Hearing that some one was greatly surprised at the capital way he played tennis when...