Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like women to meddle in the diplomatic affairs of the Holy See. Such matters are not their concern. The action of one woman, the widow of a man who had important documents, has done much harm already...
...results of its researches into the psychological and environmental factors which govern the attitude of the average undergraduate to study. The conclusions reached at the end of consideration of detailed data stress, among other things, the importance of purposefulness in the academic course of every student, and the harm done by the imposition of too many courses which are not of the student's own choosing...
...response to a question as to what steps a young author should take to acquire style, Mr. Wilder said. "Style is a by-product of personality, and in my opinion nothing can harm the notation of one's personality, which is style, so much as the technical study of organization, paragraphing, periodic sentences, and specific details. The technical side of style should be learned almost unconsciously on the tide of one's tremendous nourishing enthusiasm for certain authors of one's own choice
...History 12 is only representative if a type of teaching still too common. The major harm of such a system of small duties to the professor is that they discourage thought. No forty-five minute quiz, no five page report offers a chance to think. The discharge of such duties resolves into a test of memory or an assembling of a number of encyclopaedic facts in order...
...Brownell and the "new art" as represented by a photograph of the roof of Memorial Hall and Mr. Fitts undercoded poem about a synagogue. As a review it is neither a Fortnightly or a transition, but something of both. A definite editorial policy could not do any great harm and it would assure readers in sympathy with that policy of matter to their taste and liking...