Word: harms
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...simply calls in a dignified way for the denial of certain charges, made by Harvard representatives, which (although we believe they are not shared in by the members of their last football team) have done Yale University and intercollegiate football an immense amount of harm. Harvard's apparently diplomatic reply does not require much comment. It means simply that the two great universities will not meet on the football field next fall...
...newspaper land taught me the probable futility of a man's replying in print to anything that anybody may say about him, but so many persons have "committed false report" concerning the exclusion of the public from my lectures that a word of explanation may do more good than harm...
...spoke yesterday of the harm relsuting to the preparatory school from the excessive haste with which its work has had to be done. While this difficulty is now in a fair way to be removed, there remains another for which the college and not the elementary school is responsible...
...recent fire in Weld will serve as an example to show what harm the neglect of this small precaution may cause. The fire was discovered almost as soon as it started, but several minutes were lost because the student that noticed it first did not know where to go to ring in an alarm. As it happened the fire was a small one, and was quickly put out by the Department, with no loss but the furniture of the room in which the fire started. If the conflagration had been of a more serious nature, and the same delay...
...propose is this: that the presidents of the three upper classes and a number of graduates and undergraduates to serve as a committee representative of the athletic interests, which committee should draw up a statement of the reasons why the Faculty vote, if allowed to prevail, would do harm to the University and have this statement signed by the influential graduates and undergraduates who should sympathies with the protest. The statement could then be presented to the Corporation and Overseers and might have a good deal of weight. If it didn't what could...