Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...explanation has been advanced recently that the reason for the low average of studies here and in other colleges was that students were putting all their time on Military Science and closely allied subjects, to the great detriment of other courses and the students' general standing. This explanation is of doubtful value. We believe that there are very few men in the University, who, from necessity or desire, spend so much time on their military work that their other courses have to suffer. Certainly this is not the intention of the Military or College authorities. If it were, there would...
...refinements of method. This would be an experience of value to some of our Northern professors. And if they themselves taught, and taught finely, in their Southern chairs, they would have a large opportunity for correcting some of the notions that have grown up about New England, to the detriment of our relations with many another section of the county. We might hope to achieve a new rating also in the eyes of those Southern professors who would come to the North in exchange. Their gracious courtesy has ever been open to fresh conviction. If exchange professorships can be arranged...
...There may be reasons why the athletic coach should not receive three times as much as a professor of Greek, but there is no reason why he should not hold a position of equal dignity." Athletics and studies are too often regarded as competitive rather than complementary, to the detriment of each. As a result few athletes find time to do justice to their scholastic work, while on the other hand the most brilliant students are frequently forced to neglect their physical well-being. Coach Haughton recognized the need for co-ordination in the recent letter which he urged football...
...occasionally, details of relative unimportance seem to be given undue prominence, facts are somewhat mixed up and omissions are found, the detriment is negligible compared with the efficacy of the whole...
...grouped the objections to the cause as coming from two main sources: the primary and greatest emanating from man's confident, although unfair belief, that women can never become competent voters, and therefore would be a detriment to good government; the second and less worthy objection being the fear possessed by a majority of men that women would venture beyond their sphere of duties...