Word: harming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bound to increase the number of injuries in a season and that furthermore, it is liable to produce permanent injuries which would be avoided under the old system. Before, a man could be taken out, examined and put back. Now he will not be taken out until permanent harm is done. "Another disadvantage in the change", he declared, "is that it will put small colleges at a disadvantage as they have a limited number of substitutes...
...doubt. There are a great many things which Europe must and can do by herself before any "assistance" from this country can truly be called assistance. Europe must settle her political disputes and live within her income before official action by our government can result in anything but harm...
...Lichauco '23 outlined conditions in Europe and proved that the Allies could not possibly meet the debt. The second speaker took up the question from a somewhat different standpoint when he showed that even if the Allies could pay the debt the receiving of the payment would harm America by continuing the present business depression. R. S. Fanning '23 ended the debate by presenting the moral view-point, stating that the loan was made merely for our own defence...
There are other serious evils connected with the passionate interest and heavy gate receipts of big games, but so long as hundreds of thousands of people are determined to see Yale play Harvard it is hard to see how the over-emphasis on college games, with their attendant harm to the amateur spirit, can be prevented. --"New York Times...
Apparently the "Chicago Tribune" sees no harm in commercializing college athletics; or it has a small opinion of the true worth of an education--both of which ideas are of dubious merit...