Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject of the greatest present interest here is football. The letters have just been received from the Harvard management protesting fifteen men, among them some who have not been in Princeton this year. The protests themselves are harmless, of course, but Harvard's willingness to descend to such low-down measures, thus to go beyond all limits with the hope of crippling the Princeton eleven, has caused much comment here, which is not calculated to flatter Harvard's athletic spirit. In spite of all efforts to prevent her, Princeton will send an eleven to Harvard next Saturday which, although...
...used to brighten other colors, and as an antiseptic in the size. Since the arsenic gets into the paper in such various ways, it is impossible to tell anything about a paper by mere inspection. Of two papers apparently alike, one may be very dangerous and the other perfectly harmless. Greens, reds, browns, blues and yellows, all are suspicious, and the only safe way is to test them by a process which was described by the lecturer...
...Walt Whitman and his Philosophy" is decidedly, with the exception of the last mentioned, the most interesting essay in the number. It was for some time the fashion to bring up young men either to consider Walt Whitman as a harmless crank or not to consider him at all. Lately, as we all know, public interest has been aroused in the man, and then, naturally, in his poetry. It seems to me that the writer is a little too enthusiastic over his subject; that a poet whose work requires such a deliberate course of study and investigation before...
Upper classmen may be willing to amuse themselves by poring over dusty tomes on "Antediluvian Protoplasms," but the members of '91 require a little harmless excitement occasionally...
...rushing on Monday night, as far as I could observe, was perfectly good natured and no one was injured. The old class antagonism must be exhibited in some way, and the one which was adopted is as harmless and as satisfactory as any. When we read the reports from other colleges, we ought to be proud, I think, of the moderation which exists at Harvard...