Word: harms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what instructors he will come under; and while there is a great gain when a man conscientiously chooses a subject without regard to its softness, still there is much lacking if he does not realize that a poor instructor in the best of courses may do him harm. How often we have heard students say of a certain course that they learned absolutely nothing in it, and that it was time thrown away to attend the recitations. While there is much exaggeration in their statement, there is nevertheless much truth as well. Perhaps nothing is so tedious to a young...
...enter into the life of our athletics. The students, appreciating as they do the importance of the question, are strongly opposed to change, believing, and we think rightly, that all defects will gradually be worked out and that any inter-meddling may be productive of harm. That these are unfortunate features in the present system, no one will deny, but it would be well to ponder long before making any arbitrary changes...
...ground floor rooms, and it is a wonder there are not more; these would be checked by the presence of a good man in the yard. We do not want a policeman who shall exercise at all the functions of a proctor with the students-that would do more harm than good. But we do need a policeman who shall enforce our right to inhabit peacefully our yard and our fields, who shall make outsiders "move on" and who shall deliver us of this mucker nuisance...
...such loose morals as to remove books from the library of the French department in Sever Hall. Within the last two months, several indispensable books have disappeared. Three French dictionaries, a volume of Corneile, and one of Motiere, and other books, all in daily use, are missing. The harm done is not so much the pecuniary loss as the inconvenience to which all the students of French are subjected. Hitherto they have been allowed unlimited liberties in the use of the books belonging to the French department. The reading-room has been a quiet and pleasant retreat, where all books...
...chief delight of the students was in outwitting the proctors, and had those gentlemen shown a more reasonable spirit, the celebration would have done no harm and would have been over at an early hour. The fire on the grass by the library, which did so much injury, would not have been put there, except that its promoters were less likely to be caught in such a place. A bonfire is no crime, if it does no injury, and no one would attempt injury, unless detection means punishment...