Word: harm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disagreed with a statement made by a member of the Lynn Parent-Teacher Association that most couples going steady "decide to...bypass college in favor of early marriage." Spiegel denied that any surveys had ever been made on the subject and claimed that "no one has ever demonstrated any harm" in the practice...
...disapproving of the ban, Robert A. Fieldmesser, instructor in Sociology, saw potential harm in banning or allowing the steady dating practice. He affirmed, however, that if "steady" couples are "not too steady, it's not too serious...
...foreign policy cannot be separated from that of his Secretary of State, and here the past four years can be chalked up as little but bluster, blunder, and an inability to see that the future requires change. Dulles' well-known verbal blunders have done a great deal to harm American prestige, but they do not fully account for the precarious position of this country's foreign power. What is demanded, and what the Eisenhower Administration has failed to provide, is a fundamental shift in American foreign policy. The times demand a new attitude toward China, one that will accept...
...Sergeant McKeon was a capable noncommissioned officer, dedicated to the U.S. Marine Corps ... a good man, sincere, and of a sympathetic nature," wrote the Secretary. "I, in my mind, am sure that Sergeant McKeon never meant to harm his men ... I am convinced that a punitive separation from the service is not necessary . . . nor would the interests of the Marine Corps be served. [But] retention of McKeon as a noncommissioned officer with command authority [could not] be justly rationalized on the theory that his tragic failure to meet command responsibility constituted merely a single lapse in his performance of duty...
Because no individual would have been subjected to embarrassment, it might be supposed that the University could issue a statement equal in forthrightness to the wisdom of its stand. Yet in the final analysis, little or no harm was done by the chosen approach, and the most important conclusion is that the University rates commendation for its action...