Word: safely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would be necessary for our government to be more than four times as old as it is without having a single President who graduated from a college. Judging not from universal statistics, but from the fragmentary data so exultantly paraded by the opponents of higher education, it is safe to say that a college course increases one's probabilities of distinction more than seventy-five per cent. The contrary opinion arises from a popular inference that half of all men are college men and disregard of the paradox that all uneducated men are self educated...
...however, an amusing, agreeable fellow, and is so much in vogue that he has driven not only dull but profound men into obscure nooks and corners. And yet the fashion of being clever is a comparatively new one, and we are probably safe in saying that up to the time of the civil war a clever man was an object of suspicion. For a considerable part of the cleverness with which Boston is afflicted, Harvard College must be held responsible. During the last ten years she has graduated a number of gilded literary youths with hearts so light and consciences...
...against Yale is justified. She indulges in chess clubs! Such an indulgence is inexcusable, and forebodes the most dire disaster to the college. We have watched with greatest trepidation the rise of these baneful organizations here in Cambridge. Our college chess clubs must go, before parents may feel truly safe in sending their sons to New Haven or Cambridge. But with this one exception we think we can say of the tendencies of college life, with the writer from Yale, that "Our life is neither frivolous nor insincere," and that "there is an undercurrent in it of earnestness and manly...
...students in six churches, but technical instruction could not be offered, because the college could not offer a sufficient variety of instruction to satisfy the radically different religious views of the students. The advantage of the non-sectarian college is that under its wing, all forms of religion are safe. When young men make a choice, it is conscious one. They learn that the doctrines and rules of living, common to all sects, have more practical importance than the doctrines about which sects differ. What, on the other hand, are the disadvantages of an unsectarian college? It is asserted that...
...Harvard faculty might better have allowed the Harvard undergraduates to stand by the ship, and have done Harvard's share in raising the standard of the sport, rather than to temporarily desert and leave Yale and Princeton to overcome the difficulties present and prepare everything for Harvard's safe return...