Word: harms
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...granted without harm, as Harvard's offer to play two games, one here, seems to imply, a single concession to the wishes of so large, influential and interested a body of graduates ought not to be refused. Harvard started the dual league idea with the alleged main purpose of putting college athletics where they belong, on the basis of recreations confined strictly to student amateurs. As to the wisdom of throwing open the doors to "Special Students," and especially as to the propriety of Harvard's pressing this point after all that has been said or done, there are certainly...
...with the usages of his time. The method must be above all an independent one, and one like the method adopted by the student in other college work. It must be a comprehensive method. Professor Harper said that the Sunday School and Bible teaching of today was doing actual harm, because entered into in a compulsory spirit and in a non-comprehensive way. The Bible is of no real use when studied by texts or chapters, which have no relation with what has gone before or is to come, but it must be studied so that the lessons will...
...fraternities, most of which are incorporated by state and own tasty Society houses. Naturally, this society life, while extremely pleasant, has the effect of forming just so many cliques; and of preventing a large acquaintance throughout the college. The rivalry which exists between the societies has worked for much harm in athletics as well as in the publication of the various under-graduate periodicals. This feeling between the fraternities has, however, fostered the interest in oratorical contests so that it is considered a great honor at Amherst to be selected as eligible to compete for the prizes offered...
...concern themselves very little in any other means of helping the poor. In the last report of the New York society for the relief of the poor, the opinion is strongly hinted that the charitable work done by that body in the last fifty years has done more harm than good-that the whole thing is a huge failure. This comes from the injudicious habit of giving alms. Now the poor are not a class, they are a thousand classes; hitherto people have failed to recognize this and as a result have been deluded by the idea that the real...