Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, however, the project carries certain grave dangers. Unleashed alumni who track down only football players could do the College much greater harm than those who overlook the athletes and other schoolboy leaders and hunt solely for scholars. Probably the basic questions to be faced are whether everyone has the same definition of "Balance in the College" and whether everything in Harvard's new program really helps this goal...
Monro feels that this type of selling and interviewing "doesn't do too much harm," but it isn't exactly his idea of how to conduct the program. He much prefers to deal with each school individually, and by virtue of his coming from the East, he usually does manage to conduct his business more calmly outside the arena...
After four hours' wrangling, the committee decided, by 15-9, that no harm would be done by publishing the letter. Five Democrats, including Chairman Russell, joined the Republicans to make it public. They argued that most of it had been published in the nation's newspapers anyhow (an alert U.P. reporter in Tokyo had reported its content in January). Besides, men like Russell were determined that the committee not leave itself open to charges of suppression of evidence...
Rigid Diet. In Chicago, the Tribune syndicate's health columnist told a worried reader that her habit of eating three boxes of laundry starch a week would do her no harm, but asked her to let him know if it stiffened her stomach...
Monro feels that this type of selling and interviewing "doesn't do too much harm," but it isn't exactly his idea of how to conduct the program. He much prefers to deal with each school individually, and by virtue of his coming from the East, he usually does manage to conduct his business more calmly outside the arena...