Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other customs which were universal before the introduction of athletics. There is a superabundance of energy in the average young man which demands an outlet. The energy which might otherwise be wasted is concentrated on intercollegiate sports, and it is safe to say that far more good than harm is the result. Until some better outlet is suggested, the best thing the colleges can do is not to abolish the system, but to try to eradicate the evils which we know to exist...
...freed the German drama from its slavery to the French school, and showed how the French drama failed to conform not only to the German character, but to the fundamental principles of art. In the Laocoon he drew the distinction between painting and poetry, and made evident the great harm that had been done by the confusion of the two arts. Nathan the Wise, though written in five months, was in one sense Lessing's life work, for it embodied his views on religion and preached that universal brotherhood in which he so firmly believed. Each of his great dramatic...
...last one was chosen. The debate on the question Resolved, That it is a benefit to the United States to receive immigrants at the present rate was opened by Mr. Higgins, L. S., for the affirmative. His address had three points. That under the present rate of immigration no harm could come to our generation from the land being unable to support the people. That the country was not developed enough now so that all classes of industry could lead into one another where they were situated. That as it took courage and energy for immigrants to come they must...
...petty punishments is a good thing because the attendant is more regular and willing than under any other system. For this reason every man ought to do his best to support the policy, for it is the reports which are spread concerning individual cases which do the most harm...
...plea for the maintainance of Bloody Monday Night as a college custom is hardly so successful as the preceding editorials. The half way defence of "punches" is out of place in the editorial columns of the Advocate. That the rushes do no harm, indeed that they are rather good fun, is admitted but it is not probable that even this part of Bloody Monday Night will long exist in a place where all the tendencies of thought and action are as maturing as they are here at Harvard. It is rather a difficult matter to incite much class enthusiasm among...