Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Like most other things of value, education is good only in so far as it is used aright, and if it is misused or if it causes the owner to be so puffed up with pride as to make him misestimate the relative values of things it becomes a harm and not a benefit. There are a few things less desirable than the arid cultivation, the learning and refinement which lead merely to that intellectual conceit which makes a man in a democratic community like ours hold himself aloof from his fellows and pride himself upon the weakness which...
...throughout the year. True, he does not sit at a training table and gaze with ani mated longing at a cigarette. He does, however, train his body to the best of his ability. If we have sensible training a man can keep in training a life-time without physical harm. The healthiest men I have ever known have been professional athletes in constant training. If every athlete here at College is sensible and looks after his own training, he can train every moment of his life without physical injury...
...securing votes were followed. The prevalence of bribery was brought directly to his attention when representatives of a variety of organizations invited him to buy their votes. Without exception, their offers were promised careful consideration, and declined on the last day before the caucus when they could do no harm...
...pointed out that "it is impossible to believe that * * * undergraduate sentiment would tolerate such virtual desertion of a team, if the extent of the harm done was fully realized." The letter concluded, "since it is fully as disgraceful for an athlete to get on probation as to break training, and should be so regarded, it has been decided in view of these facts, and of the fact that the chances of success for the baseball team, the crew and the track team this spring and of the football team next fall are seriously jeopardized by reason of regular members...
...train ourselves to adjust our sympathies and affections to the religions of alien races? Lack of knowledge, he explained, is the direct cause of localization of thought. The indifference of minds, completely absorbed in the abnormal provincialism of their own opinions is as likely to do harm as good in its charity. Such an attitude is a contradiction to the Christ in whom we pretend to believe. And the sectarian religious hatred which may follow from this is the most ugly ghost in human history...