Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enthusiasm by one of his famous addresses. Pratt's origin and early history were not known to his student acquaintances. That he was a man of a good deal of natural shrewdness he often proved; but his mind was in some way unbalanced, so that he had become a harmless 'crank.' He boasted that he was the greatest traveller in this country; and certain it is that penniless as he almost always was, he was ever in motion, and after a week's stay at Harvard was likely to turn up at any moment at Washington or some more distant...
...other second cries Los! and off they go. The strokes, coming entirely from the wrist, rain down so rapidly that it is almost impossible for an inexperienced eye to follow them, but as each one is guarded one hears the sharp thwack of the sword as it descends harmless on some part of the padding of the shoulder or throat. Suddenly a small tuft of hair seems to spring from the big man's head. "Halt!" cries his opponent's second. The swords are instantly stuck up by the seconds and the umpire steps up to examine the head...
...That harmless pigskin with the symbol, A. B. on it, is at present causing no little discussion. The following letter from the Nation, the hotbed of this discussion, may prove interesting...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - May, I trespass a little upon your space to make a few remarks on a subject, which, so far as I see, has as yet been but gingerly handled? The day after the "rush" between '88 and '89, harmless and good-natured as it was, the Boston press, notably the Herald, was filled with highly sensational accounts of the affair; these statements were at once copied over the country under the title of "Ruffianism at Harvard." As a specimen of the incorrect statements that got afloat, I received yesterday a letter from an anxious relative asking about...
...regard to the much discussed rush between the two lower classes, it should be said that, in so far as any ill feeling or danger to the participants was concerned, the affair was harmless and worthy but little attention. Coming as it did, however, soon after the hazing affairs at Princeton, and the rough and tumble rush at Yale, it cannot fail to draw down upon the college a great mass of unkind criticism. The city press is only too glad to magnify the most trivial college scrapes until they assume the dignified proportions of a riot, as many...