Word: detract
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cricket might be called the school game, and every effort is made by the masters to encourage it. Each of the two cricket clubs, "Isthmian" and "Old Hundred," have four elevens, and the school team is picked from these. Base-ball has been forbidden as it was found to detract from the interest in cricket...
Florence, the capital of Tuscany, is situated on the Arno, a small stream, which. during the rainy season, only partially fills its bed. The city has no unsightly suburbs such as detract from the beauty of our American cities, and is, moreover, kept with exquisite neatness. There is no city in Europe in which Americans feel so much at home, and the American colony is, consequently, very large. The Arno is crossed by many bridges, some of which are very old, one dating from the thirteenth century. The Ponte Vecchio is very picturesque on account of its being lined...
...Ambition," is an attempt to answer the old question "Is life worth living?" Its delicacy and thoughtfulness make one regret that it is not more elaborate. The idea of "Misericordia," is good and the style is clear and well-worded, but the brevity and disjointedness of the treatment detract much from the general effect of the story. Of a very different style is the story of "A Crime," from the French. It is vivid and picturesque, though the plot-a dream of a man who contemplated murder-is too horrible to be pleasant. The best article in the number...
...challenge received a short time ago from the Harvard Cricket Club will probably be declined. There is no cricket organization in existence in college now, and to organize and support one would detract from the interest taken in the existing organizations. It is probable that the students will think it best to make sure of retaining Yale's present championships before they go hunting after more...
...person signing himself "W. S - e, '87" (an abbreviation by the way corresponding with the name of no member of '87 in the catalogue) in your issue of Thursday is unworthy of notice, except for the utterly foundless charge that it contains of an "attempt" on my part to detract from the value and extent of the work now being accomplished by the present instructor in elocution." No one appreciates more highly than I the efforts of Mr. Hayes to give a thorough training in the art of expression, but it is evident to all familiar with the facilities afforded...