Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...negative force in life. Its real value, however, is in raising us to a plane above low temptation, and in leading us on to higher and nobler actions. The attitude of indifference towards the conduct of others, so long as we ourselves are not affected, inflicts indescribable harm, which cure can only be remedied by men of courage daring to stand up for justice and truth...
...first duty of the student is to take proper care of his health. How to give prolonged intellectual training to the mind without harm to the body is a problem that colleges are still trying to solve. The training of the mind should become a steady effort. There also exists a third essential: the cultivation of the ideal, of love, of duty, and of personal service...
...University Debating Club, would not leave a sufficiently efficient margin of debaters in the Junior class to warrant a class club, and that a Junior Club which was only a moderate success, in not keeping the under class clubs up to a sufficiently high standard, would do more harm than good...
...Junior Club is not large, and while a successful 1900 Class Club would doubtless prove a valuable addition to Harvard debating, a poorly supported organization in setting but a weak example to a Sophomore Club which would otherwise have everything in its favor, might do much more harm than good...
...have little force. To administer the immigration laws on the Canadian line would require that it be on almost a war footing. The affirmative must prove that there exists a class which must be kept out and that any restrictions which may be proposed would do more good than harm. They have proposed two tests. The illiterate test would shut out a large number from northern and western Europe. The educational test would shut out 44,000 each year from Southeastern Europe. This would cause a vacancy in the labor market and skilled laborers would be forced downward...