Word: diminisher
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...committee misunderstood. The changes insisted upon were meant absolutely to do away with the objectionable features. Therefore the referee must be not only opposed to the game as played at present, but he must have absolute control of it, and the punishment must operate against the whole team, to diminish its score, if need be, or it would not be efficacious. The action of the committee in this one case is not intended to affect any future action which the committee may desire to take; it applies only to the proposed Yale game. Prof. Norton hopes when the season...
...York Post inveighs against the custom so prevalent in American colleges of paying professors the lowest possible salaries. The tendency to the scholar's life, it says, is not very strong among our young men at best, but nothing better calculated to diminish it could well be hit on than the spectacle presented to them all over the country of professors who are either fourth-rate men, for whom their wretched salaries are full remuneration, or first-rate men toiling for what barely keeps body and soul together, and places them, in an intensely mercantile community, in humiliating contrast with...
...which we object seems to us entirely unnecessary. The only thing urged in its favor is that the batter will thus be given a slightly better chance of hitting the ball safely. The better way to work a reform in this direction is, as we have suggested above, to diminish the efficiency of the pitcher. By abolishing the foul-bound catch the advantage given to the batter will be comparatively small, and at the same time some of the prettiest and most brilliant plays which now add so much to the interest of the game will be rendered impossible...
...merely advances his hypothesis, based upon an imagined condition of facts. We have not found that a fondness for athletic exercises tended to render students indifferent to their progress in class, or influenced them, when exercising their right of selecting subjects of study, to choose easy branches or to diminish their application. On the contrary, we have had to restrain some of our athletes from undertaking more intense application to a wider range of study than we deemed advisable, and some of our brightest graduates have been men who distinguished themselves in athletic sports. Just at present we have...
...even though it be done at our own expense. Such force and intelligence as the Review often displays, will go far to advance outside opinion of the intellectual condition of the students at Oberlin College, which the illiberal and often narrow policy of its faculty so frequently tends to diminish. As to the argument itself, against which the Review so eloquently musters the forces of its indignation, we have still to reiterate our belief in its essential truth, although we are bound to admit that its statement is too broad to be applied, in a literal interpretation, to the case...