Word: harm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Certainly the situation is not so deplorable as to justify a movement which might be accompanied by outbreaks similar to that which recently occurred at Princeton, disturbances which do more harm both to the students and the college in a day than all the "professionalism" which now exists could in years...
This punishment of degradation was characteristic of the times and was a relic of English aristocracy brought to this country by our forefathers. If the feelings and sentiments which prompted it had been allowed to increase much harm would have come to our colleges, as we can hardly conceive of the extent to which these social distinctions might have been carried, with their attending discomforts, unless interrupted and destroyed by that spirit of freedom and equality which was the primary cause of the Revolution...
...considers its proper meaning. We do not see what good reason what we may call the crusade party in this discussion have for clinging with such desperate fondness to a mere watchword such as this. Word-jugglery is often effective on party contests, but we cannot but think it harmful here. That is to say, we believe that those who support the new crusade often fail to grasp the real evils which have called forth this reform movement, because of a certain mental obstinacy on their part in only considering one aspect of the evil. It is true that...
...Yale graduate in Boston says that the order and discipline in professional clubs is far superior to those in amateur and college clubs, and that, in four years' experience, he has failed to see the least harm in playing professionals...
...nation watch and wait the result. In case of victory he wishes to immediately "Paint the town red," and whether winner or loser he assists and encourages the contestants to celebrate their release from the wholesome restraints of training by a round of riotous excess, which does more physical harm than a decade of training, or a hundred hard races...