Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from the horror element in Radcliffe cycling, it is a strong detriment to young love. For example, in the days of Kittredge, and those were the days, Harvard-Radcliffe couples could follow the course of true romance while walking down Garden Street. But nowadays, the bicycle has turned romantic love into mechanized warfare; sentiment gives way to slaughter...
...established scholars in the field. But when it comes to a choice between preparing for tutorial or studying for the encumbrances which automatically come with a grade system--term papers, hour exams, finals, generals--, it is only the powerfully-willed student who will choose the former to the detriment of the latter. That a few of these students do appear is a testimony to themselves, but not to Harvard's curricula. The lure of grades, however, is not so much a mania for the marks themselves--at least, we hope not--but rather a desire for what grades ideally should...
...established scholars in the field. But when it comes to a choice between preparing for tutorial or studying for the encumbrances which automatically come with a grade system--term papers, hour exams, finals, generals--, it is only the powerfully-willed student who will choose the former to the detriment of the latter. That a few of these students do appear is a testimony to themselves, but not to Harvard's curricula. The lure of grades, however, is not so much a mania for the marks themselves--at least, we hope not--but rather a desire for what grades ideally should...
...their courses, but would be completely free for the rest of the year to follow their research interests. This might well help reduce the current competition of courses and research for the professor's time and interest, a competition which seems more often than not to work to the detriment of both interests...
...this is not the only area in which union communications falter to the detriment of their long-range security and their acceptance as a mainstay of our free enterprise economy. At the same time that they repair their relations with their members, unions must do a more consistent job of demonstrating to the public that their goal is to go forward with the total community, and not to win gains at the expense of the community. Nowhere is this task more urgent than in the field of inflation control. Unfortunately, in the minds of many who have been worst...