Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting these objections the report of the Committee to the Board of Overseers first argued "that while it is easy to understand why the Corporation should object to discussion about lands remote from the present property, it can do no harm to suggest such approaches as it might be expected the public spirit of the city would supply as a part of their park system, or to form conjectures as to the improvement of the present grounds, if contiguous property, that everybody knows the college would gladly own, were obtained...
...been suggested that the cap only should be worn. It has also been suggested that any man wearing a Senior cap should be supposed to bow to any other Senior so attired. Although such a scheme might at first incur some ridicule, at the very least it could do harm and seems at any rate worthy of some consideration...
...have gone thus into detail, not because the matter deserves so much attention in itself, but because it gives a fair example of a kind of letter-writing which can do no good, and may do more or less harm. Properly used the communication column is a reasonably useful institution, but at times it threatens to become an unmitigated nuisance. We have tried to open that column to all who want to use it, but we do not wish to place its space at the disposal of men who try to deal with persons in authority...
...issue of justice to one side or the other is then far-fetched. As a business measure, the decision of the legislature will hardly, in either event, greatly alter the policy of the University. It may do some good; it can not do much harm...
...much for the association from the student point of view. Its more important feature will be in the unification of graduate sentiment. The divergence of graduate advice in the past has caused much concrete harm. Accordingly we have called upon the graduates interested in athletics to band together and elect representatives whose duty it shall be to inform themselves of the facts and impart their opinions to all members of the association. We call upon the student authorities to fully inform our representatives, and we confidently expect that all graduates desirous of criticizing will first ascertain the exact state...