Word: harm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thorough patriot. How many men of business have left a better record? Yet the old Puritan prejudice had as most Puritan notions had, a principle beneath that is fundamentally right. Leisure, unemployed, is apt, as Dr. Watts has kindly pointed out to us, to be a source of harm...
While the northern soldier was aided in material things he was also supported by the thought that his family was far away from harm, sure of aid in case of his death, while the Confederate was battling almost on his own hearth, his family and loved ones daily exposed to the shock of battle and defenceless at his death. The southerner, too, was not fighting for a government, but for his property, slaves and traditional honor...
...passing Stoughton last Friday night, one of these avalanches struck me, but fortunately, as I had an umbrella up, no great harm was done...
Without going further, then, we can see no harm in permitting 'competent students' - who only, according to the words of the announcement, are to be afforded the privilege of entering these courses - to take two courses of this kind. It seems clear enough that no one would be likely to engage in two special investigations and limit his field of work to such narrow lines, unless for good reason and with definite aim. And in such a case the student's desires ought to be gratified. Harvard cannot afford to put any discouragement in the way of an ambitious...
...meetings, that societies offer more attractions than the chapel, that the Harvard spy-glass is not unknown in Boston theatres at certain seasons of the year, and that the writings of certain authors are a little more closely thumbed than the books of Miss Austin. But where is the harm in all this? "Boys will be boys, of course." The question then resolves itself into a question of innate morality. Are our ideas chronically immoral...