Word: detract
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Wilcox is a smoothly written story of excellence in the descriptions. The closing passage, portraying the vast snow covered plain and the bursting into flame of Ornoff's love, is notably effective. The story might be accused of a tendency towards sensationalism, but not sufficiently to detract from its merits...
...principal editorial of the number very sensibly points out that an introduction of the hotel system at Memorial next year would make club tables an impossibility, and seriously detract from the advantages of the hall as a boarding place. Other editorials are concerned with the interscholastic football league, the standing of special students in the Law School, the graduate department and the summer schools...