Word: ruinous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...parents regard the very name of Harvard as possessing some magical power which will allow one under its influence to enter some charmed circle, as it were, where all is lovely and everything is in his power. Others think our college is the very hot-bed of extravagance and ruinous habits, and that it is impossible for anyone now-a days to pass four years within its classic walls without being misguided...
...outburst of popular feeling. In closing, the lecturer said he could not help drawing a lesson from this early history of California, a lesson of the dangers which threaten a Republican form of government. Every step an individual makes away from our social organism is a losing and ruinous...
...battery was well up to the standard we have been taught to expect. With the nine in its present condition, there ought to be but little doubt of the issue of the game against Brown this afternoon. At any rate, we feel justified in the belief that the ruinous slip made by the nine in its game at Providence last year is not to be repeated...
...great objection now to college boating is that it takes up so much time. Any change would be ruinous that tended to increase the time required from crew men, especially from our best 'Varsity men, whom it is hard enough to keep at work anyway, and who would be the only ones qualified to coach. Gentlemen, require us to coach ourselves, and you add to what is already the most objectionable feature of college rowing. You make it impossible for crew men to do as well in their studies, and so you prepare the way for the eventual abolition...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-The air is filled with denunciations of our faculty. Indignation meetings have been proposed, and dynamite will soon be resorted to. If, in spite of these warnings, the faculty will persist in their ruinous career, a calamity must inevitably follow. But let us consider the matter in a slightly less nihilistic way. What justification have the faculty for their actions? In a conference held in New York, a number of professors, representing all the Eastern colleges of any importance, decided that the professional spirit had entered to a too great extent into almost all our college athletics...