Word: diminished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent Yale alumni dinner President Porter said: "As far as Yale is concerned athletics are doing well; they do not divert the interest of the students nor do they diminish the zeal for culture as a whole. The tone of the students is improved by the slight diversion of attention which they cause. I take the liberty of explaining why we are reticent in making arrangements in regard to athletics with the other colleges. It is the result of long experience. The question has been talked over more than ten years, and upon it President Eliot and myself have bestowed...
...accepted by all the colleges in the association and those who do not accept them will have the right to retain the organization as at present constituted. This will necessitate the surrendering of the valuable championship cup, which has been held by Harvard for several years past, and will diminish or destroy our chance for its final possession. There are a number of other lesser sports which will be interfered with in a corresponding degree, as can easily be seen from what has already been said...
...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...