Word: safely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These college sports should be kept within proper and safe limits. There is President Bartlett, of Williams College, in the dry docks with a broken arm, caused by falling on the ice, and Professor Sumner, of Yale, in the ditto with a ditto, caused by falling off a bicycle. It is high time the students held a meeting to consider how far it is safe to allow the faculty to go in their reckless love of manly sports. - Elmira Advertiser...
...billed to appear in a concert at Portland. The street-cars, driven at the exhilarating speed usual in Cambridge, reached the main depot in ample time for the Portland train, and unloaded their freight into a couple of drawing-room cars. These immediately assumed a character which it is safe to say they never before dreamed of. The report along the line that a menagerie had "broken loose" will give a hint as to the character meant. The grave senior, unused to aught but dignity, unbent his brow into a smile and shouted and sang at intervals between puffs...
...improbable that the gymnasium authorities appreciate how cold the main hall of the building is. To one going from the dressing rooms, which are generally very comfortable, into the hall there is a surprising and disagreeable change. The steam has not, we think it is safe to say, been turned on in that place this season, though there have been several days cold enough to warrant such action. On behalf of scores of shivering students, we ask that the matter may be attended to at once and further discomfort avoided...
...This last class, it must be confessed, is the smallest of the trio. The first class is made up of a small minority of the body of alumni, and possibly a professor or two. The second class is the strongest, and if predictions are in order, it is quite safe to say that Yale's next president will be a man of their pattern, though it is likely they will have to yield in their requirement that he must not be a clergyman...
...Lacrosse management expect that the Oelrichs cup will be here in a few days. It will be placed on exhibition when it arrives, and then placed in a safe-deposit for safe keeping...