Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...very much want Harvard men to join our organization. We want them, however, only if they can serve without detriment to their college progress. Every effort will be made to permit the fulfillment of their college demands...
...flitting from class to class attired in flowing black robes and balancing awkward square caps on their heads. For its final six weeks of undergraduate existence, 1919 will for the first and last time assume a scholarly aspect. The sedate Seniors will stumble along in unfamiliar skirts, to the detriment of their own good humor, until they receive the coveted sheepskin. Thus will one of our oldest traditions be continued...
...Business as usual" is a fallacy of great detriment to the war's prosecution. An entire elimination of real and seemingly real non-essential production is equally out of place. War is not peace but it must not be made a negation of the advancement of modern civilization. For greater efficiency both at present and in the future a curtailment of luxuries must be carried on in a wholesome recognition of the refinements and practical needs of society. Discourage non-essentials, but appreciate these fundamental facts...
...permitted to do so if he proved fit for such service before he was 21. Speaking generally for all our colleges and universities, I think that every institution of learning should, so far as possible, guarantee every boy who goes to the war against any scholastic detriment or penalty for having gone...
...great-hearted "perpetual undergraduate" is depicted wart and all. The secret of Wendell's personality was an abiding youthfulness or, to use Mr. Wister's phrase, an innocence that "never shrank from its full original stature." Like all youths he was swept ahead by enthusiasms, sometimes to the detriment of social conventions. Athletics, work with the boys of New York, club life, enlarging his theatre collection, amateur dramatics, music, his final trip to France last summer, represent but a few of the many outlets for his superabundant energy. Behind everything towered his love for Harvard and all its concerns...