Word: harm
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...external harm to the University that these pranks have done in nearly every case outweighs the internal harm, for reports of such an attack as was made on Brooks House are reprinted in the papers all over the country, exaggerated and misrepresented to such an extent that they really give Harvard a black...
...this loss necessitated a general rearrangement of the crew, and greatly retarded its development. It is impossible to believe that athletes would so neglect their work as to get on probation, or that undergraduate sentiment would tolerate such virtual desertion of a team, if the extent of the harm done was fully realized...
Although the trees on the University grounds are cleared of moth nests each year, the nests reappear in large numbers and it seems that this annual expense must be incurred indefinitely. No permanent harm is done if the trees are carefully watched...
...means for improvement. I know that a feeling of what might be called indignation prevailed in the College immediately after the Pennsylvania and Yale games and I feel sure that some of it still exists, but to give expression to it would do a great deal of harm especially as it is, in my opinion, without much foundation. There has been a lot of talk about favoritism and society influence and it has spread abroad to such an extent that the reputation of the College has already suffered and will. I fear, suffer still more. Every Harvard man should...
Aside from the more practical objections, some of us feel that the tendency to make the public more and more an item of first consideration in University exercises is doing us all a good deal of harm. The public might misunderstand the spirit of our fellowship as thoroughly as they have misunderstood the spirit of our sport...