Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work of freshman year if not quite all, while it is very possible that the work could be better done here, yet the chances are that it would not be, and that the repetition would bring out but little of advantage to faithful students while it would work great harm to ordinary ones, by cultivating and fostering neglectful habits of work. To be sure there are certain advanced courses which a man can take if he pass off his freshman work in them, but these are not always taken. Bad habits of study formed in freshman year are very...
...safeguard to have the game refereed by an alumnus, who may be supposed to be removed from sympathy with the present mode of play. We doubt, though the advisability of changing rule 19 so that the referee can disqualify a player without a warning. Frequently, without meaning any harm, a player may be off-side or tackle a man foul, and yet the referee be unable to say whether or not it was an intentional violation of the rule. Under the present rule a player in such circumstances would probably receive a warning. We think if the present rule, disqualifying...
...fill the place most satisfactorily, but we trust the corporation, in default of a better man, will not take one whom they hope can be trained up to his duties. Such a person would be untrusted, a failure in every sense of the word, and might do much more harm than good to our athletic interests...
...college at large we doubt if the difference between the undergraduate who "rags" and the Bill Sykes who steals anything he can lay hands on is clear or marked. But though the sign-stealer, with his limited and perverse sense of honor, sees but a little harm and a great deal of sport, the Cambridge judges have long looked on this simple and innocent amusement from a different point of vies. Lately two undergraduates had to pay a heavy fine for indulging in this pursuit, and Judge Ladd threatened the next offender brought before him with three weeks in jail...
...From harm our summer fancies stay...