Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...also makes many characteristic remarks in two papers that he contributes. The Rev. E. E. Hale and C. D. Warner have the most interesting papers in the book, - especially the latter, who wisely refrains from laying down dogmatic rules. On the whole, we think the book can do no harm, and may do some good - in the hands of children ten or twelve years...
...college nine, some of whose men are professionals. It establishes a precedent which, if followed up, will inevitably tend to lower the tone of all college organizations, and subject them to slurs similar to those cast on the honesty of professionals, while it offers no advantage to offset the harm it is sure to do. Whatever college resorts to the expedient of playing professionals on their team, should not expect to enter for an amateur championship. It is not too late to come to an understanding in the particular case referred to, and it is none too early for Harvard...
...that, as a small force is not unfrequently big in result, the indication of the choice of the University in this matter may be effective in securing the nomination of some man who is a type of the best American citizen. At any rate, it can do no harm. The gentleman in charge of the polls is a proof that the movement is not one of idle curiosity, but of earnest purpose, and we hope that every student will feel it incumbent upon him to vote...
...less obligation. But the College Fund is not on a par with these, and a subscription to it should not be regarded as a duty performed, but as a gift freely given. It has been so regarded, to some extent at least, in the past; but it does no harm to call attention to the matter again...
...argument; but concerning its effects upon instructors and students, I have heard little or nothing. Is it not at least an open question whether the good done the student's style by writing half a dozen themes and a few forensics is not more than out-weighed by the harm done in scribbling twenty blue books a year? For my part, I strongly suspect that to write the blue books of a college course would have ruined the style of Addison and made Dr. Johnson unreadable...