Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little or no experience at all in actual rowing of longer distances. I may say I have rowed four-mile races for years and the same with the shorter distances and I can safely say, from a life-long experience, that it is the shorter distances that do the harm to the men. It is the pace that kills in rowing, as it does in any other athletic activity. The longer the race the slower the stroke and the less strain on the heart and lung; the shorter, the quicker and the greater strain...
...send only four men to take part in individual events. The Committee made its decision owing to the fact that the Crimson track team has just returned from one of the longest trips in its history and would, in the opinion of Coaches Bingham and Farrell, receive more harm than good from another trip to Philadelphia. Coach Bingham believes that the can whip his runners into much better shape by intensive practice at home than by a tedious train journey, which would result in the loss of several days' practice, to the Carnival...
...decided advantage in the case of Freshman teams, which are composed of men who hall from various preparatory schools and consequently are not thoroughly acquainted with one another. A premium is now placed on ability to lead and a discount on mere popularity, while at the same time no harm is done to the man who is both popular and able. Other Freshman teams would do well to copy the crew in this regard...
...choice stands for. It is in presenting the true spirit of the college, and in stamping out wrong ideas, ---such as the popular version of the "Harvard" type referred to by the youth headed New Haven-ward--that college publicity can be of service. Propaganda and proselyting to more harm than good in their ultimate results, but sane publicity does a service to both the college and the school. By it a preparatory school boy can judge intelligently what his aim a mater should be; it will prevent a student from entering a college with whose ideals...
...reason may be found. As was recently brought out in a discussion in the New York Evening Post, three recent by-elections out of four have gone to Labor or to the Liberals, and one, at Woolwich, was saved for the Coalition by resumed, there can be no possible harm in signing the agreement and pleasing Labor. True, the Commons may turn down the agreement, the Kronstadt, uprising may be successful, or the courts may rule the compact worthless, yet Lloyd George will have done his best for Labor...