Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possibility would be by no means unfortunate. For the point on which he might be subject to most criticism would probably prove to be his greatest asset. An effective sense of humor and a measure of satire, if coupled with any sort of real understanding, could do no harm to the Senate. As to the presence of such an understanding, Mr. Rogers' Californian colleagues are in a position to judge...
...example of what I mean is the printing in your last issue of a statement about birth control by the doctor who attends the British Royal Family.* If he "can find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control," then I have indeed been misinformed, and I intend to seek out the facts. I had thought that even a knowledge of this subject was in the nature of a "taint," but as a loyal citizen of the British Empire I have confidence that the example of the Royal Family is ever uplifting, never the reverse...
...Royal Household and to Edward of Wales,* last week testified that birth control was an excellent thing. Said he: "To ask this generation to go back to the helter-skelter method of having families is like crying for the moon." He could find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control, nor did he have any respect for "gloomy forebodings as to the break-up of family life...
...Since the bird was very tipsy, and had a distinct order about him, the character of the writer of the epistic was held by the editors to be dubious at best, but since the Crimson never endorses sentiments appearing over a correspondent's signature, it was argued that ho harm could come to the children from the appearance of the letter in print...
...majority of men who matriculate in the College do so with the idea that the end has begun and that a collegiate degree will conclude their formal education. It is not, perhaps, a great majority; it is nevertheless sufficiently large to obviate any change in plans which would do harm to it, although benefiting a powerful and increasing minority. One must first consider whether or not a candidate can successfully complete requirements for an A.B. in any less than four years; and such reckoning should be accomplished, not on the presumption that he intends to pursue his academic career...