Word: harming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action of the Harvard Corporation in officially protesting against the measure is well justified and distinctly appropriate. As the resolution states, the duty would "seriously handicap American libraries, teachers, and men of science, and would accomplish no useful purpose commensurate with the harm done to American scholarship". If other authoritative bodies like the Corporation will take similar action, Congress should be made to see the error of its contemplated step before the sentence is sealed...
...resolution states that in the opinion of the Corporation the proposal would, if put into effect, "seriously handicap American libraries, teachers, and men of science, and would accomplish no useful purpose commensurate with the harm done to American scholarship...
...United States is to settle the problem of the ever-increasing city with its parasites, this is the sanest method of doing so. To give the farmer power will mean a return of interest in the farm, as well as a less politically governed national policy. No harm has ever yet come from a sensible "back to the farm" movement...
...just as likely to happen, provided that the farmers come to feel that their most valuable market lies in foreign countries. This attitude is apparently the most desirable, leading as it would toward closer association with other countries of the world. At all events, it will do no harm if the national politician is forced to take into consideration the stabilizing influence of the farmer...
...opinion that athletics are fully as important in the University as studies. But they have a well defined place. As a means of unificatiton, of training, and of recreation they are invaluable. When they go into the field of revenue producing and advertising they do more harm than good...