Word: safely
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...decline in the interest taken in boating has been very much regretted of late, and has been explained in various ways. The explanation which seems to be the true one is, at the same time, very far from complimentary to us. It is safe to say that laziness has more to do with the lack of material for club crews this spring, than anything else. While at the time we were making up our minds that rowing too closely resembled work, our English cousins were struggling manfully at the oar. At Oxford, twenty-one colleges have boats on the river...
...plain white flannel of our University crew is safe, we hope, from the attacks of the authorities. Let us run no "risk...
What this means we are unable to conjecture, but if it is intended to mean that our crew, or any part of it, is to remain in training until the 15th August, it is safe to say that some mistake has been made. The Journal seems to think that the English Universities ought to do their utmost to accept the invitations they have received. It is quite confident, too, of the result of a race with American crews, and says...
...Harvard, Thayer made a base hit, but was forced out by Tyng's grounder to third. Latham went out on a fly to Leonard; Thatcher hit safe, bringing in Tyng; Sawyer was given his base on called balls, stole second, and scored on a base hit by Holmes. Wright struck to first base, and was put out. In the next two innings neither nine added anything to their score, but in the fifth Sawyer, after hitting safe, scored the only earned run of the game, coming in on a "two bases" of Holmes's. Score 3 to 1 in favor...
...course loses his degree. But the required average of 50 per cent is a general average, and if a man obtains a mark above 50 - e.g. 55 - in one subject, it will counterbalance a mark between 40 and 50 - e. g. 45 - in another, and his degree will be safe. It is the same with the whole course. No degrees are given to students whose general average for the whole course is less than 50 per cent; but marks in various courses - so long as they are above 40 per cent - are not taken into separate consideration...