Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Such a state of things is a positive harm. It is not merely that the University furnishes education of second-class character, but it prevents many bright men who are capable of a first-class education from receiving it elsewhere, by persuading them or their parents that what it has to furnish is just as good. There is a large number in every college in regard to whom it makes little difference whether the opportunities furnished them are first or second-class. They will get about as much from one as the other. But the 'remnant,' the bright men with...
...life in the back districts of ignorance. The young, developing mind needs diversion, and time had yet failed to produce a means of diversion superior to that afforded by athletic contests. Those who would have the student think of anything but athletics seem to care more for his harm than for his good. Many say that in themselves athletics are all very well, but why so much attention and enthusiasm? Without the attention and the enthusiasm, there could hardly be any athletics. The student does right in giving some thought and interest to athletics. The wrong is where he gives...
...gross misrepresentations of college events, no criticism is too sharp, no condemnation too severe. A man, who can so forget his own honor as to bring by any wilful action any stain on the good name of his own college, ought to be regarded as a source of harm to the college world, and to be so treated by his fellow students. Such men, we regret to say, exist in our college...
...Some of the inter-collegiate contests last year gave offence to many persons who have heretofore supported them and believed that while they did some harm, they did more good. In particular, the game of foot-ball was played in such a brutal and dishonorable way that the faculty, after waiting two seasons to see if the players could not reform the game themselves, have been obliged to prohibit inter-collegiate foot-ball altogether. It is very improbable that a game which involves violent personal collision between opposing players can ever be made a good inter-collegiate game. None...
...That harm as well as good may come from too frequent mention in the newspapers, no one will deny. Vassar College, the pioneer college for women, is an instance where much real harm has come from a cheap newspaper notoriety due to this very fact that it was the first in the field to afford collegiate instruction for the weaker sex. How the college is suffering from the cause may be learned from the following, which an exchange prints...