Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...true that the benefices to the University have come for the most part from localities subject to the personal influence of members of the Board, it is reasonable to conclude that, if this influence encircled a larger area, the area of patronage might be enlarged, without detriment to the interests of the University. And although there is no want of confidence in the integrity and administrative ability of the present Board, there is no surety that the same may be said of all boards in future. When the management of a large amount of property is confined to a small...
...good reason why the actual state of things should not be accepted, and that freedom from recitations granted, which otherwise will, however much to our detriment, be taken...
...were it not for the pecuniary emolument of my present employment I should have to deny myself many aids to the spiritual life, e. g. I find that I can enjoy fashionable church privileges in Boston, which I should otherwise be obliged to forego, to the very great detriment of my moral nature; and many other things of like sort. Now, can any one doubt," he went on, "that the spiritual gain more than outweighs the spiritual loss in this case, to say nothing of the fine example of my public acts of virtue, while these private peccadilloes (only...
...their respective nine and boat; they had the opportunity of taking very nearly just whom they chose, and they have now included the best men from among these candidates in their organizations. How, then, can it be said that the foot-ball team will be made up to the detriment of either of the two interests? On the contrary, if the foot-ball men chose to complain, might they not with much truth declare that the University ball nine and the University crew were organized under conditions disadvantageous and even unfair to them? This dispute, however, if carried further, would...
...mean time we shall have to content ourselves with such opportunities for practice in speaking as the College may accord us. There is, however, one chance for practice which is very frequently neglected, to the detriment of our own interests, - the class and society meetings...