Word: safe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...think we can draw some lessons from our defeat. In the first place, our own interpretation of a question may be right, but it is never safe to be so sure it is right as to leave unanswered or treat as irrelevant arguments based upon a different understanding of the subject. If our men had said, "We do not accept the Yale interpretation; still we will answer our opponents on their own ground," the result might have been different...
...open exclusively to Seniors, is in a subject which is studied by many, and often a special report or a thesis might be sufficiently elaborated without much additional labor. The date by which subjects for most of the prizes must be approved is now past, but it is safe to say that the committees in charge of them would dispense with formalities in order to arouse more general interest...
...will be the most interesting athletic event in which Harvard will have participated for several years past. A race with Cornell alone would be attended by a large contingent from every class; but the entrance of Yale into the contest lends it a double interest, so that it is safe to say that every Harvard man who can afford the expense would wish to go to Poughkeepsie this year...
Many trophies of interest such as the old Mott Haven Cup, the West Point Football Cup, and the Lawn Tennis Trophy, which are now the property of the University, and the Shooting Cup, the Fencing Trophy and the Chess Cup, which are held temporarily, are either stored away for safe keeping or on exhibition in some other place than the Trophy Room. There are also many footballs, baseballs, flags and other trophies won by Harvard teams from year to year which are either put away like the cups or selfishly taken by individuals. All will agree that the Trophy Room...
...sufficiently easy of access. With the general supervision of the coaching in the hands of Mr. C. W. Smith '86, who, as will be remembered, was captain of a remarkably successful championship team, it will be felt by all that the coaching interests of the team are in safe hands...