Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...necessary not only to help the team to win, but also to protect the men from the physical risk of zeal untempered by knowledge. Rumor says that other teams than the cross-country have also been left uncared for, but to none of them are the dangers of bodily harm arising from such neglect more imminent...
...turned the attention of every thinking Harvard man to some dangers of our elective system. The more we recognize these disadvantages, the more we ought to look-out that the system does not become burdened by new and superfluous dangers. I am sorry to see that a new harm connected with the election of courses is threatening in consequence of the postal card canvass of the Seniors which the Harvard Illustrated Magazine instituted and published the week before last...
...held under consideration at the present time, but as very few meetings of the Committee remain before the end of the term, we risk the criticism of over-persistence by again urging the Committee to abolish this unfair regulation before the year is over. It has already done considerable harm and apparently no good, and it should be done away with before it has a chance to influence another athletic year...
...training, but the weight of authority appears to be that if a man is enough of an athlete to play on a number of teams, it is a good thing for him to be in training all year. Even if he were not physically able to do this, no harm would be done, for the captains of the major teams to which he belonged would see to it that he did not hurt himself by participation in any of the winter sports...
...best reason for this limitation which occurs to us is the desire to avoid publicity, but when this publicity can be of no possible harm, we are at a loss to understand the attitude towards it. Or possibly the authorities object to having the undergraduates make too much of a business of what should properly be a pastime, by entering into competition with the outside theatres. But a pastime becomes less pleasurable when attended with financial loss, and larger audiences would prevent the occurrence of this unfortunate contingency...