Word: safely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Butler's message the Chicago News says : "If some graduate fresh from Harvard had been elected instead of Gen. Butler the young collegian would have carefully consulted with all his uncles and his cousins and his aunts as to what it was safe for him to say. Gen. Butler labors under no such embarrassment. He has given us the youngest, sappiest, freshest, greenest message this country has read for many a day." "He gives Harvard students a sly kick, which they will probably find occasion to return with interest," says the N. Y. Herald...
...mistake is in resolving to send him to Columbia or anywhere else. A young man who cannot be trusted to read "The Mill on the Floss" or "Othello" should not be sent to any college whatever or allowed to go at large at all, but should be kept safe at home. - Ed. Evening Post...
...Flannery, secretary of the National Lacrosse Association, explains that the delay in forwarding the Oelrichs cup to the Harvard Lacrosse Club was simply owing to its being necessary to repair a damage to the cup which happened to it while it was on exhibition. The $300 bonds for its safe-keeping which the winning club is required by the rules to give were not asked from Harvard in advance, and it was not because they were not completed that the cup was not forwarded sooner...
...boat-house will be taken up today and the boats be removed to the old club-house, where they will be stored for the winter and sold at auction in the spring. Those persons who have any valuables in the boat-houses are warned that they will not be safe if left there, and they had better remove them at once. Back rents are to be paid immediately to John Smyth, the janitor, now that the boating season is closed...
...government of Harvard University is taking steps to honor itself and an illustrious name by appointing Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Emeritus Professor of Anatomy. And with perfect justice to the honored and revered emeritus professors of Harvard, it will be safe to say that in no instance has such an honor been awarded to more faithful work or to a more accomplished professor than in the case of Dr. Holmes, whom Boston knows best as a Bostonian, and the world of letters as a great literary character, but Harvard, in addition, as the shining light of the first medical establishment...