Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ancestors were vicious, if my bringing up was bad, if my temptations were strong, why should I up-braid myself? Yet how am I to account for this consciousness of sin, which is wholly different from the consciousness of folly or misfortune? I may have done myself all the harm imaginable through mere folly and stupidity; but however mortified or sullen I may be, I can never feel guilty or penitent. It is as hard to argue us out of the consciousness of guilt, as it is to argue us into the consciousness of real desert: for while virtue...
...have been so displeasing in its nature to the Board of Directors of Memorial Hall. We doubt if any one connected with Harvard is more interested in the success of the hall, or more proud of its present position than the CRIMSON. We should regret to do anything to harm this institution, but we feel that a little criticism, instead of doing harm, will improve the hall...
...when few persons ventured across the yard without a heavy overcoat, when rooms in Thayer and Holyoke could not be heated above forty or fifty degrees, one of the crews had the hardihood to run up North Avenue, clad in the scanty and inadequate clothing of the gymnasium. The harm done by such needless exposure is two fold: 1st. As certain parts of the body are chilled, the circulation of the blood becomes irregular, and the heart is liable to ge affected. The captains, however, can avoid this danger by compelling their men to wear more clothing, especially around...
...Indade, sor, and it's very good it is for you to be a asking" afther the loike o' us, and I'll be afther a tellin' yer all you'd loike ter know if no harm'll come...
...Obrien I assure you we mean you no harm, quite to the contrary...