Word: harms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...phase which athletics have assumed here during the past few years. The successive defeats of Harvard teams are attributed to the intermeddling of the faculty in athletics-an institution which the faculty, in its ill-judged endeavor to remodel and reorganize, has only succeed in working incalculable harm...
...Want of southern interest in negro education.- Rep't of S. C. Sup't of Education. (c) Impoverishment of South.- Brown in Cong. Rec., Jan. 19, '88, p. 566. (d) Insufficiency of school appropriations.- Rep't of La., Ga., N. C. school commissioners, 1886. 2. Uneducated voters harm the State.- Aristotle's Politics; Nation...
...hysterical demonstrations of the college public over successful games" such terrible evils when kept within ordinary bounds of decency? We believe not. Important intercollegiate base-ball contests, for instance, occur for the most part on Saturday afternoons, as provided by the regulations; and surely it can do no harm to college work if the whole body of students turn out to see the game. There is a healthful, pleasurable excitement in watching a closely contested match, which, if the element of betting is left out, can surely do no harm. If the game is won, is it not natural...
...which Exeter is viewed by Harvard men. We would inform the students there that the presuming young man must be either some escaped lunatic if he has learned that Exeter is disliked here, or some vicious-minded youth who is desirous of doing Harvard all possible harm by advancing his own views or prejudices against a preparatory school to which he for some reason is hostile. We would advise the young gentleman to sign his own name to his attacks hereafter in order that no one may be misled into believing that anyone here except "Pilliparius" holds such sublimely silly...
...raise our standard in athletics without lowering our social ideals, for we do not want to meddle with the social conditions here? It must be remembered that it was under these very conditions that the gentlemanly spirit of Harvard has been evolved; and surely a gentlemanly spirit cannot harm athletics...