Word: harmful
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Writing in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin issued today, Langdon P. Marvin '98, chairman of the Board of Overseers' standing committee on Relations with the Alumni, and a well known New York lawyer, calls attention to the harm that may be done an institution by criticism which is not founded upon facts. This is the first of a series of short articles on various phases of the University prepared by experts to be published in the Alumni Bulletin. These articles are fostered by the committee of the alumni mentioned above, and deal with the work and purpose of the committee...
Professor McAdie also upheld the statement which has been quoted by Mr. Smythe as having done "untold harm" to Franklin's character. "The story as it a commonly conceived," he said, "is on the face of it extremely fanciful. The picture of the old man standing out in the rain and wind with a small silk kite, which has been one of the favorite subjects of patriotic artists, is not at all accurate. If such an experiment were really handled in that fashion the experimenter would, in all probability be promptly killed...
...goes most of the credit for the idea of the course, stated that he had every intention of including the subjects of philosophy and the relation of religion to everyday life in his proposed course. "The introduction of such subjects would do far more good than harm." was Mr. Shimer's opinion...
...York State is to be made simon-pure by the morality-makers at Albany. Their latest effort, as all now know, is directed at literature. It is, say these Solons, to be protected from itself, and kept from doing harm. The situation in a nutshell reveals an odious tale of legislative tinkering. Books are to be mailed and backed and literature to be made a handmaid of the State Legislature, People will be led with spoonvictuals of Pollyanna strain. Authorship will amount to a disgraceful truckling to the prudes of a loud-voiced minority. The public press...
...into jail. Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy, had, as promised, pacified all Italy in 48 hours (TIME, Jan. 12). The Premier had kept his word. The strange noises which were heard were only the dull thuds and thumps of a political Opposition that had temporarily been put out of harm...