Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...admission requirements and noted particularly Harvard's intimate connection with the entire country. However, important work remains yet to be done, and this service the Federation of Territorial Clubs has been designed to aid. In many sections of the country misconceptions and prejudices exist to the detriment of the University, and these unfounded popular ideas have persisted because not combated. The Territorial Clubs have merged in order to do real work in placing Harvard in its true light in all parts of the country. Of all the undergraduate organizations this is one of the most important because it concerns intimately...
...fight its battles, to push its interests, and a great deal of the wrong that is done is concealed from the actors by their devotion to the welfare of the concern. Even in charitable and educational institutions one feels this strongly. They struggle against one another to the detriment of the cause in which they profess to be engaged, until the army of the Lord sometimes reminds one of that of Midian which was destroyed before Gideon because every man's sword was against his fellow. If this be true of institutions whose professed object is unselfish, how much more...
Yale suffered more from penalties than did Harvard, a thing which is encouraging to Harvard men. Crimson teams have often been at fault in this respect, but in Saturday's game the team played a hard and eager game without this detriment...
...unfortunate that we at Harvard can give so little attention to our visiting teams. We are so overwhelmingly interested in the partisan side of athletics that we have forgotten that a social side can be added without detriment to the spirit of rivalry. At present most of our athletic visitors spend the night in Boston and do not come out to Cambridge until just before the game. Immediately afterward they go back to town, having seen no more of Harvard than the Square, the Stadium, the Locker Building, and the historical bridge across the Charles...
...institution of the projected idea would immediately manifest itself in a much higher average mark. That, then, is the great justification for the proposed move: it will tend to induce every man to do his best in scholarship, as most are at present doing in outside affairs to the detriment of deserved academic credit. This argument in favor of the publication of marks we consider to outweigh every thing which has so far been said in opposition...