Word: harm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...presence of a professional in this sense, however, on the college grounds, if a man of good character might be productive of less harm than intercourse with technical amateurs of lower character. But this did not affect the faculty's position. Their objection was to the introduction of professional methods and spirit into college sports. The two should be totally divorced. It seems for this reason that the faculty objected to employing for temporary periods any professional trainer. If such a trainer, however, had renounced the pursuit of his profession he would no longer be considered a professional within...
...athlete has to do is take plenty of exercise, live temperately, eat the best and simplest food, drink little, and smoke less. If possible, do entirely without the latter luxury, but should the athlete be a confirmed smoker, a few whiffs at bed time will do him less harm than constantly hankering after a pipe. Further, in most cases hard work before breakfast should be avoided, and do not make the training so arduous that the man's energies become exhausted before the race. It is better for him to be a bit "above himself" than the reverse, moderation...
...timely views on the subject of college and university education. He begins by asking whether the most of people are better citizens and better men and women for possessing this higher culture, and says in reply to his question: "Now it must be admitted that a college can do harm and that culture may be a bad thing. Not a true college or a noble culture, mind you. But it has become an axiom among philosophers that the finer a thing is the more vile is its corruption. So then if culture be but a carping and inactive criticism...
...What harm then can there be in accepting such an offer? No attempt is made to induce the crews to act unfairly in the race. The offer is made to all alike. They simply select Saratoga because it will cost them less to row the race there then elsewhere, and their fellow students will be thereby relieved of a corresponding amount of subscriptions. Besides they are not to depend upon the hotel men for patronage. They will not row the race to please and benefit a set of businessmen, such as hotel keepers, but to have a chance of contending...
...possible to give another play here at Harvard. The "OEdipus" was eminently successful in every way, and certainly from the great and general interest which it aroused all through the country, would encourage an attempt to produce another. At any rate a discussion of the question will do no harm, while it may show the project to be practicable...