Word: harming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would ask men to refrain from showing their approval or disapproval while the rounds in sparring are going on. Last year much harm was done and much ill-feeling was caused by the failure of the spectators to control themselves. After the bouts are over it will be time for men to applaud, and if they disapprove, to keep silence...
...almost entirely supersided by the influence of the Monthly editors, of the members of historical, philosophical and finance clubs of the senior year; and as the upperclassmen give the tone to the college, you see how misleading Mr. Quest's article is. The fast men are there and do harm to themselves. But the importance which Mr. Quest's article assigns to them and their doings is wholly unwarrantable...
...represent that body on the athletic committee, after a patient and thorough investigation of the subject, have been convinced from the numerous letters received from former captains of our base-ball nines, and from the presidents and professors of the leading colleges of this country, that no such harmful results would follow the employment of a professional base-ball coach as has been predicted by many persons who take but little interest in athletics. The arguments advanced in behalf of the granted petition cannot, after a careful perusal, fail to be conclusive. In a letter received from Professor Richards...
...professionalism and (b) indifference to the merits of the question. The first arises from a desire to keep our athletics pure, and the second from non-appreciation of the value of professional practice. It contrasts the deportment on the field of professional and amateur nines, and argues that no harm can come frome contact with a professional team, since the chance for personal intercourse between the members of the different nines is extremely small during any game. In a more selfish view of the matter, the petition presents a strong plea in its favor by statistics of Harvard and Yale...
There is no harm in not reading very many books. A great many, as Lord Bacon said, may be read by deputy. And the valuable deputy for French is St. Beuve, the purest critic who ever wrote...