Word: divert
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the excitement attendant on these sports distracts from study. it is true that the contests do furnish excitement for the students, but it is excitement of a healthy kind. Athletic sports do not divert so many from study as the theatre and billiards. Banish athletics, and you increase the attendance at the theatres and the saloons, where the temptations are greater, and the excitements less healthy than those of the ball-field and boatrace...
...athletics. The men in college who are in the habit of betting would continue to bet on something else, if not a game were played nor a race rowed. Gambling would increase if the athletics were prohibited. Games and races in colleges do not create betting. They simply divert it from other channels...
...only example which may be cited of the misfortunes which often attend a university education abroad. In Germany the barbarous practice of dueling which is so common there, is said to be encouraged or at least passed over in silence by the authorities, as it tends to divert the minds of the students from a too eager interest in politics, for it is a well known fact that the German universities have a strong tendency towards republicanism which if allowed to grow would soon assume formidable proportions. We can, therefore, congratulate ourselves that in some respects at least we have...