Word: harms
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...influenced them. No pay, or prize money, or prospect of pension had the least attraction for them. They offered their services and lives to the country, just for love, and out of the determination that, if they could help it, the cause of freedom should take no harm. No mercenary motives can be attributed to any of them. This disinterestedness is essential to their heroic quality. The world has long since determined the limits of its occasional respect for mercenary soldiers. It admires in such only the faithful fulfillment of an immoral contract. The friends we commemorate here...
...English occupation has not been a success because it has done much more harm than good-(a) England allowed Egypt to lose the Soudan.- (x) In 1884, England forbade the Khedive to recover Soudan, and caused the death of General Gordon: Quar. Rev., p. 264, (1895).- (b) Public debt has been increased from 475,000,000 to 508,965,299 dollars.- (c) There has been great financial corruption under British rule: J. S. Keay, M. P.- (c) Financial progress is rendered difficult.- (x) The finance department of Egypt is guarded by six European governments. and treaty privileges exist with fourteen...
Contemptible and criminal as such an act is, more lasting harm has been done to the reputation of the University by the sensational stories that have appeared in the Boston newspapers concerning it. The correspondents for most of these papers are Harvard men, whose loyalty to their college should be strong enough to keep them from writing columns of wretchedly sensational stuff on every offense that is committed in the University. That the Boston papers are willing to print such ineffable twaddle in order to cater to the depraved tastes of some of their readers, is bad enough; that Harvard...
...three mile race is altogether too great a strain to put upon college athletes, most of whom are under twenty-one years of age. There are probably few men in the University who are physically able to enter such a race without the danger of doing themselves serious harm...
...finally chosen. This is where the honor of Harvard has been assaild and it is upon the supporters of the defeated candidates that the brunt of the insult falls. To them we appeal to give the lie to an insinuation whose utterance alone has already done more harm to Harvard, coming as it does from a usually reliable source, than any criticism that has been published for years...