Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard men alone. The Blue Shirt Club, the Crimson, the undergraduate madness in shifting courses, the rival college, and many other particular elements of life in Cambridge are made fun of so that anyone could understand the reasons. Yet like Goldsmith's "History of England", this Lampoon does "no harm to nobody." It simply keeps the College healthily astir and confronts it with a modest image of itself at the present moment...
...Zangwill really feels this way, it will do no harm to his audience to hear stnoera criticism rather than polite nothings. And after all Mr. Zangwill, like Shaw's Caesar, may have been speaking on an empty stomach. A good dinner might change America's whole aspect...
...little truth and much propaganda in the majority of European papers I will admit. In any continental city it would be necessary to read eight or nine different newspapers each day in order to obtain a true and comprehensive idea of conditions in the world. This misrepresentation has worked harm in Europe. And yet I do not believe that facts have been misrepresented with a vicious desire to create trouble in the world...
...would do no harm for others to follow his example. The university degree, particularly in America, is losing much of its former meaning through indiscriminate bestowal on every visiting celebrity. A university is no longer considered hospitable unless its guest leaves with a longer title than he brought with him. Often the degree is aptly conferred. More often...
...only to France but to the world. However hard it may be to collect reparations from Germany as a whole, collection from a piece-meal Germany would probably be impossible. Nor would her hopes for peace and security be realized. Just as a buffer state might work more harm than good, a conglomeration of microcosms allying with various powers, sought after by various powers, and always standing with chips on their shoulders would be a pestilent breeding ground of war. Although opinions may differ as to the party responsible for the chaos, it can scarcely be doubted that a German...