Word: harming
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...over-solicitous of Radcliffe. Besides being uncomplimentary to the Radcliffe girl, it fails to consider for whom it is making its rules. Since the motive in making rules for Harvard organizations is supposed to be the well-being of these groups, the Council should ask whether the girls will harm the groups they join (perish the thought), not the groups they leave. The Radcliffe Dean's Office and Council are quite capable of legislating about the latter...
...Senators rank high in character and vision, that few of the present Senators are as bad as some specimens of recent history-the Bilbos, Huey Longs, "Pappy" O'Daniels and "Cotton Ed" Smiths. Some are merely time servers and seat warmers who are as incapable of harm as of greatness. There are others whose antics are sometimes cheap and whose motivations are sometimes sordid. But their faults in one area of lawmaking or politicking are offset by their usefulness in others. After allowances are made for such human frailty, these eight would turn up on most lists...
...good more than the harm when the desired rise in morals could be accomplished by much less loss to the College and to the persons involved? The morals of the College need very little raising, a light tap is sufficient to clarify the moral issue (and keep the books in Lamont); beating the sinner's brains out with a baseball bat is, as I said, barbarous...
...bring the breath of honesty back to the fetid stacks, the University has suspended a number of students recently. The Deans do so reluctantly and only after consideration of each individual case, hoping that suspension will do more good than harm. It's an expensive price to pay for a book. But if the incidence of suspensions continues at the present rate, soon everyone will know a friend who has left the College for this minor crime, and perhaps both the books and the miscreants will stop disappearing...
...know ... I was obsessed," the doctor said. Phinney persisted: "You had an obsession to inject air into the veins of this poor, dead soul?" Said Dr. Sander:. "That's right . . . The very fact that she was dead gave me assurance that I could do her no harm...