Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...impossible that freshmen should know whether they are possessed of the requisite qualities. It will do less harm to try and find oneself deficient than not to try and lose the chance for valuable development. We invite all men who feel themselves suited for the position of editor to present themselves as candidates. The competition is open to the entire college. Members of ninety-five and ninety-six desiring to try will see the managing editor in the sanctum at two o'clock on any day except Saturday. A special call will be issued to the freshman class...
...found in every college class. Yet we are loath to believe that there are many men in ninety-four who have not sufficient manliness about them to sink their own little ambitions in the welfare of the class. If the wirepulling and slate-making affected the class alone the harm would not be so great, but the influence does not stop with the class. If a slate is practically elected before it is really elected, if certain athletes get certain places and men from various societies take the rest and the whole thing is a foregone conclusion, the report...
...must first sanctify ourselves. In a University like Harvard this is a principle that is very applicable. To make the University strong and influential each individual student must do his duty faithfully. Here we are so closely bound together that a few men going wrong can do untold harm, while on the other hand a good work started by a few may be carried on indefinitely...
...literary and musical, ways for here it cannot be exposed by any other than its possessor. Freshmen should feel that, if they have good voices, they will have as good a chance as anyone else. If they are taken onthe club, they are fortunate; if they fail, no harm has been done...
...extenuating circumstances and yet they did not excuse certain features of the cheering. We have for the remainder of this month some peculiarly interesting games in store for us. It is enough to remind the college of the danger there is in carrying things too far and of the harm it does to us in the eyes of the public. We do not think the cheering on Tuesday was as had as some would imply and yet there were portions of it which no true Harvard man wants to see repeated...