Word: defenceless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - As matters stand now, the reserved seats on Holmes Field are almost unbearable on a pleasant day on account of the way in which the sun beats down on the defenceless heads of the spectators, so that the whole south side of the field is a perfect furnace for the whole of the afternoon, and the north side is equally as bad until five o'clock. Now these reserved seats are meant originally and chiefly for ladies, and ought therefore to have some pretence to comfort beyond that of having numbers painted on them at intervals...
...material things he was also supported by the thought that his family was far away from harm, sure of aid in case of his death, while the Confederate was battling almost on his own hearth, his family and loved ones daily exposed to the shock of battle and defenceless at his death. The southerner, too, was not fighting for a government, but for his property, slaves and traditional honor...
...have received a communication from a person signing himself "Harvard Graduate" calling us to account for our supposed hard treatment of the freshman eleven subsequent to their defeat at Exeter, and claiming that our editorials on the subject were written in a jealous spirit of upper class men, against defenceless fresmen. We are sorry that the gentleman did not sign his real name, for he thus prevented us from publishing his letter, but we feel compelled in justice to our selves. to the college, and to Eighty-Eight in particular, to defend the position which we assumed in our previous...
...anxious as if the cage had broken and the animals had been turned loose upon the country. To complete the simile the secretary of the treasury must be considered as the keeper of these wild beasts, vainly endeavoring to restrain them from their fierce onslaught upon the defenceless people...