Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years will show their influence in a more perfected manhood, and in broader and sounder views of living. But on the other hand, if a young man is indolent and indifferent in his college duties, his course will seem to have been of slight advantage, and, indeed, of positive detriment to him as preparatory for active life...
...last spring's base-ball contests. Aside from the benefit that will accrue to some future 'varsity eleven, the class spirit which has lately found an outlet in the rather unsatisfactory rush will now be turned into a more legitimate channel, and will be a benefit rather than a detriment to the college. The energetic way in which the freshmen have set to work serves to show that eighty-nine will not be content with the bottom position in the list of classes...
...real strength of the senate remains for the future to test; and the longer a general quiescence delays this, the more Amherst is to be congratulated. The past has proved, however, that the senate is entirely practicable; the judgments, while few, have not been made hastily, nor to the detriment of the college; the senate has not proved more lenient than the faculty; the latter have been entirely satisfied with its workings; and the growing popularity of the plan at Amherst and at other colleges is a good omen for the success and an increase in the powers...
...Blaine, and to win over doubtful voters, so far as they can be won by the effect of enthusiasm. The Seniors of Harvard have no right in such a procession, if they bear their intended transparency. No gentleman has the right to say or do anything to the detriment of the man whose salt he is eating. The Senior Class is equally bound in honor not to attempt to defeat the object of the Republican procession; a thing which they will attempt if they thus proclaim their hostility to Mr. Blaine...
...charm of novelty. The overseers whose terms expire in 1888 are Mayor Green, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., W. G. Russell, Leverett Saltonstall and Moorfield Story, a very imposing array of names. Among officers of instruction the chair of Professor of German remains still empty, alas, to the great detriment of the college. The other vacancies are the Perkins Professorship of Astronomy and Mathematics, Hersey Professorship in Anatomy, the chairs in Applied Zoology, in Engineering and in Dental Pathology. The office of "University Printer" is for the first time elevated to the dignity of a position in the catalogue. The list...