Word: harm
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...part that you must play, continued the Bishop, is to send us good men ordained as ministers. No University that is not sending its quota of men to the ministry is doing its duty. Besides this you can do a great deal by your life here. Nothing does more harm to our cause when we are struggling against immorality than to see in a University, the centre of culture, any laxation on this point. Unless you Harvard men are absolutely sound on the question of morality and drink, you are undermining our work and are doing the world more harm...
...coming to Harvard for the first time. The speakers are representative men--few of them far removed from personal experience with undergraduate life--and well adapted to their audience. The majority will probably not require to be urged to be present; but it may do no harm to suggest to those few who consider receptions fit only for the unsophisticated, that such an opinion is a sign of ignorance, rather than of superior intelligence...
...cases out of ten. But it is one thing to criticise and another to construct. If new words were to be written, as the writer of the communication suggests, we feel that they should only be officially adopted after the most careful scrutiny into their lasting worth. Surely no harm would be done, however, if the proper authorities were to invite the graduates and undergraduates to submit new words to our time-honored music, and a justified change might result...
...commandments are the fundamental laws of all creation and not arbitrary rules for man, and the breach of a commandment shows its harm by the destruction it causes. Animals, by over-covetousness often die of starvation; by being false, are killed...
...judgment on practical affairs, political and social, of educated men who keep aloof from the conditions of practical life, is apt to be valueless to those other men who do really wage effective war against the forces of baseness and evil. From the political standpoint, education is a harm and not a benefit to the men whom it serves as an excuse for refusing to mingle with their fellows and for standing aloof from the broad sweep of our national life in a curiously impotent spirit of fancied superiority. The political wrong-headedness of such men is quite as great...