Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sybil. It treated partly of Balda, who was the purest and whitest of the gods and Loci, who killed him. Balda had dreamed that his life was threatened, and the gods had made all things - the animals and the plants - promise not to harm him. But they had neglected a little plant which grew on the mountains, the mistletoe, which was so small that they thought it could do no harm. Loci heard of this, and possessing himself of a branch, repaired to an assemblage of the gods, when they were throwing things at Balda and sceing them avoid...
...Abbot's way is not careful, is not novel, and, when thus set forth to the people as new and bold and American, it is likely to do precisely as much harm to careful inquiry as it gets influence over immature or imperfectly trained minds. I venture, therefore, to speak plainly, by way of a professional warning to the liberal-minded public concerning Dr. Abbot's philosophical pretensions. And my warning takes the form of saying that if people are to think in this confused way. unconsciously borrowing from a great speculator like Hegel, and then depriving the borrowed conception...
...baseball game yesterday the applause from the Harvard spectators at several of Brown's errors was very noticeable. Whether or not this applause was due to the debilitating effects of the recent class games, it is impossible to say. There is no great harm in carrying on our class games as we do; but it is a serious matter when we begin to applause our opponents' errors in a 'varsity game. It is a matter so serious as to bring Harvard's good name into question unless it is speedily remedied...
...Corse when his time had expired, cannot be be considered unjust to Mr. Corse, because he knew perfectly well when he took the office that he would not be reappointed if the Republican party came into power. On the other hand the appointment of Mr. Hart did no harm to civil service reform, because it is admitted on all hands that President Harrison has made an admirable appointment...
Although the cathedral escaped almost entirely during the civil war, a great amount of damage was done by an architect by the name of Wight, who was "let loose" inside, and who "did more harm than the whole of Cromwell's army could have done...