Word: detract
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brooks House was purposed to be; now they feel that to give a $50,000 building such a site would be a waste of needed ground, and they are therefore forced to place it where any architectural beauty it may possess will be largely wasted, and where it will detract from that of other buildings...
...once more call attention through your columns to the eminent unsuitableness of the site selected for the Brooks Memorial House? The northwest corner of the Yard is so crowded that any new building could hardly fail to detract seriously from the beauty of the spot, to say nothing of injuring the rear rooms of Stoughton. These objections have been already urged at length in editorials of both the Monthly and CRIMSON, and in fact by every person, whether graduate or undergraduate, to whom I have mentioned the matter. It is one in which we are all of necessity interested...
...hail with delight the beautifully printed and authoritatively written book about Old Violins, just published by Lyon and Healy, Chicago. The fact that this volume contains a list of the old violins offered for sale by Lyon and Healy, and will therefore be sent free upon application, does not detract from its literary value nor from the keen interest with which its facsimile labels and other quaint illustrations will be viewed...
...student body and for its own interests? For the interests of the crew and the interests of the students are, or at least should be, inseparable. These interests demand that the race be rowed June 23 or June 24, preferably the former. Such a date would not detract from Class Day and would give the crew the support of the students...
...wish to come in parties of perhaps twenty, and incidentally to economize chaperones. Six or eight Seniors must make up their party to suit themselves and apply for a box; perhaps sixteen might want two boxes together. Lack of boxes, for such as can not arrange parties, will not detract from their pleasure; the boxes are simply for convenience...