Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to this must be obvious. Harvard cannot afford to have an underprivileged, discontented group in her midst. Those, so callous as to disregard the feelings of the group itself, should consider the harm such a condition does to a unity more important than that existing in the different Houses. For the House problem at present is a serious menace to the unity of the college...
...grounds than they provide much needed practice in the democratic process. But forms mean nothing provided the correct spirit is not behind them. Democracy in the Union and the Yard is a mockery. The cynical and frivolous attitude toward democratic forms which this situation produces does greater harm than a complete failure to exercise a democratic prerogative. The opportunity to vote will be offered students under far more auspicious circumstances in later years. In the Yard, however, elections are synonymous with hypocrisy, and freshmen conscious of this will abolish the two together...
...moot question among physicians is the physiological effect of smoking. Only definitely established fact is that cigarets do little harm to a strong, healthy heart. Last December, Dr. Harry Louis Segal of Rochester, N.Y., who teaches in the University of Rochester's medical school, announced the results of a series of careful experiments on cigarets and fatigue. Even minuscule amounts of nicotine, he said, whether smoked in cigarets or injected directly into the veins, cause fatigue in many persons...
...perhaps the clumsiest piece of buck-passing ever perpetrated, Police Commissioner Timilty last Friday traced Boston's juvenile delinquency back to the "Dean End Kids." Mr. Timilty's statement, which was made following the daring capture of five 13-year-old members of the Green Hornet Gang, deplored "the harm these pictures are doing to young minds," and ended on a note of despair: "There is nothing the police can do about them...
...Hartley, Neb., while John Proud milked his cow, the cow stepped on a cat's tail. The cat scratched the cow. The cow kicked at the cat, struck John Proud's wife, broke her left leg. As Proud pulled his wife out of further harm's way, the cow kicked again, broke the left leg of John Proud...