Word: safe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trouble has been that no one has had the duty of seeing that all Harvard trophies are put in the Trophy Room and of caring for them, and that some of those who had valuable trophies in their possession feared that they might not be safe in the Gymnasium or selfishly thought they would serve well as decorations for their own rooms...
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, at whose suggestion the old Harvard Union was organized, has consented to address the present Union early in the next half-year on some subject connected with speaking. As Colonel Higginson has not yet fully regained his health, he does not think it safe to speak in the evening nor in a large hall. He will therefore speak in the afternoon, very likely on a Wednesday afternoon so as to give the members of English 6 and English 30 a chance to be present, and probably in Sever 11. Admission to Col. Higginson's talk must...
...safe to say that there are few members of the undergraduate body of this University who are not amazed and indignant at the position now taken by the committee of the Corporation with regard to the Tree Exercises on Class...
When a student pays five dollars a year towards the college infirmary he takes out a remarkably inexpensive and safe accident policy. He gets what thousands of persons hereabouts would be only too glad to get for the same amount,- medical treatment for one year. Why then should any man of prudence look upon this small charge as an "unwelcome mockery." And if perchance he is so fortunate as to enjoy good health during the year he has what the ordinary policy holder has not, the satisfaction of contributing to the welfare of his fellows and the institution of which...
...people has acted as a check upon their legislation, and the lower classes have not been represented in Parliament, but have been contented to be ruled by the higher classes. England is virtually an aristocracy. The United States is a democracy. Our machinery of Government is careful and more safe...