Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrat Trimble, "caused serious embarrassment to a number of borrowers. It gave rise to much unjust criticism, resulted in withdrawals from some banks. Other banks which intended to apply to the corporation for loans have refused to do so because they felt that publicity would do them great harm. . . . The board hopes that in a spirit of cooperation you will help it by refraining from publication which is fraught with so much harm to borrowers...
...closes with a game against the winning Yale Class team on Friday, November 4, the 150-pound season will not lap over the House games more than a week and a half. The chief reasons for the discontinuance of the 150-pound team last spring were that it might harm the turnout for house football and that there were not enough teams of its own weight and calibre for it to play in this vicinity...
...give religious advice to all those who need it. In doing no more it has acted wisely. Fighting the conditions and spirit of the times is a vain and thankless task. To push the issue as far as Professor Bell suggests would certain be inadvisable, and might work irreparable harm...
...probably know, the Athletic Association is, more than ever this year, faced with the problem of financing its operations. In quest of new revenues it was necessary for the organization to place the new charges where they would reap the most financial benefit with the least harm to undergraduate interest in athletics. Of all its facilities, the new gymnasium is probably the most expensive, yet worthwhile,--from the student's point of view. Surely no sane man will begrudge this little extra charge which gives him so much benefit...
...first time some one thought how to prove that sparing the rod might harm the child. Students need the in centive of punishment if they are to learn anything quickly.?Drs. Leland Whitney Crafts & Ralph Wesley Gilbert of New York University shocked students with electricity every time they made an error in simple mechanical problems. Not only did the shocked students learn the problems more quickly than did undisturbed students, they remembered their lessons better...