Word: harming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...second place, "There's a chiel amang ye takin' notes"; in fact, several of them. For there are, or have been, several undergraduates connected with Boston papers. There is no harm or shadow of injury in that, so long as their efforts are confined to the delineation of absolute facts, and their imaginations are not drawn on for the sake of another paragraph. But we may safely leave to their sense of honor not to wilfully misrepresent...
...last Advocate urged that the alcoves in the Library be thrown open to undergraduates, and without doubt many students could be allowed to look over books freely, and no harm be done. However, we are assured that such freedom is impracticable, and that when the experiment has been tried it has failed, for in spite of "college honor" rare books have not only been injured, but frequent thefts have occurred...
...officers. They would no longer feel that they are left almost entirely to their own judgment, and that all sins of omission or commission will be covered by the vague excuse that they did their best. Even if they are our friends, it certainly can do them no harm to ask an explanation of their actions, while, if they are not well known to the majority, a vote of want of confidence ought to bring into their places men who are better fitted to execute the opinions of the College. If we demanded reports with some degree of frequency...
Another thing that those trying for a crew should bear in mind is that they must sacrifice all pleasures inconsistent with training to the work they have undertaken. Anything which retards their physical improvement is not only harm done to themselves, but it is also an injury to the interests of the College, which depends upon their efforts for success. The sacrifices which they are obliged to make are never unrewarded. In recompense for self-denial in a few things, they obtain the respect of their fellow-students, and the honor of representing them...
While such a plan as the above could do no harm, it might do much good. The first result would be to raise the general average, and hence the standard of scholarship. Every one would know at least once in two months just how he was doing, and would be stimulated to improvement. The professors would be urged to do their best, because "A" men would not attend their recitations unless they considered they really could not afford to be absent. Such a plan unites the best features of German, American, and English universities. It gives a man every privilege...