Word: harm
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...wish to take a clean and decent attitude in life, there are many who choose the right, and yet think it is not necessary to draw a perfectly sharp line between good and evil. They think they may toy a little with sin without harm to themselves; indeed they often believe that every well-educated man should have some knowledge of the prurient and unclean...
...nervous and muscular energy to the highest degree. It takes some little time to regain the energy thus expended;--in rowing, perhaps longer than in most other sports--but if the recovery is complete, and I say again there is nothing to show that it is not, is any harm done? Are we to give up contests involving endurance because a man requires a little time to recover from them? Our crews hardly need to be in their best condition again the day after the race, when we row Yale only once a year...
...half is less exhausting than four miles. Of course there is a great difference between a mile and a half and three miles, still it is after all a question of degree only. It is in the last mile of a four mile time row, or race, that the harm, if harm there is, is most likely to occur. The mere getting "pumped" as in a short race is not harmful. It is during the struggle to keep on, to do one's utmost towards the end of a long race, and when weakened from previous effort, that harm...
There is no harm in a games of baseball for the fun of the thing, but when a young man receives his railroad and hotel expenses for taking part in even one game, he is violating the letter of the rule. When there is any doubt in the mind of a student as to his standing in a game he ought for the good name of the University to stay out of it. Yours very truly, IRA N. HOLLIS...
Each graduate is asked to state his opinion as to the benefit or harm resulting from the influence of the elective system in his case, and to answer several more specific questions,--as to the number of courses taken to evade hard work; the effect of the system on strenuousness of application; the opinion of the writer regarding prescribed studies in schools and colleges, and what the studies thus prescribed should be. If the questions meet with general and intelligent response the result will, it is believed, be of great importance in the whole matter of American education...