Word: harms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were the inevitable accompaniments of the old-time required examinations. Those who are up in their work, under the new system, are rewarded by being allowed to omit a portion of some three-hour paper, while the men who feel that a little further preparation would do them no harm, are given the chance to make one more trial to raise their mark...
...would all be the same sort of men, popular men, and would really represent only a very small proportion of the students. Similar objections were found to the other plans of representation that were suggested. The committee felt that a conference which turned out a failure would do more harm than good, too great harm to risk the experiment...
...growth of character may be perverted, we should not therefore give up striving to develope character. Foot ball can be played without moral hurt, and was, until within the last few, years. And some of us have our opinion as to the one source from which ail the harm to the game came; we think we know who began the tricks and the roughens. But however that may be, the game is valuable for much more than physical development; and its dangerousness of late has been greatly increased by the abuses that have so nearly ruined it. The game...
...others had engaged the interest of the college through many years, is now threatened with a most inglorious end. There may be many objectionable features in the game of foot ball "as it is now played," but they are features in many instances productive of more good than harm...
...from that dangerous vicinity back into the enemy's country. This is the roughest part of the Eton game, and is sometimes, no doubt, where the match is a keen one, as for the House Cup, very rough. While the game is confined to boys, however, no very great harm is likely to ensue, and, as a rule, the Eton game may, we think, be said to be less prolific of serious accident than any other; certainly far less so than the Rugbeian indiscriminate pulling and hauling and kicking, which have, indeed, been of late considerably modified by the rules...