Word: diminished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...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...