Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...quite fashionable for Harvard men to be somewhat boastful of the various advantages and superiorities of their Alma Mater. This boasting is harmless enough, but it would be well for the men who indulge in it to devote themselves to the present; for, should they look into the past records of the College, they will find many things which they would prefer to have blotted out. They would find, for instance, among the recipients of the highest degrees which the College confers, after such names as Archbishop Whately and J. S. Mill, the name of U. S. Grant, - a record...
...they naturally succeeded in eliciting only groans from the ranks of '80. While going down stairs after the play, the Freshmen sang, but this could not have interfered with any one's enjoyment of the music or of the acting. In short, their behavior, although remarkably juvenile, was entirely harmless...
...equal care threw crockery ware and mirrors out of windows. One would naturally suppose that this remark, which died years ago through old age and inanity, would have been allowed to rest in peace. This is only an unimportant one of many instances, and if they were all as harmless as this no great offence need be taken (although it must be rather disgusting to students to be held up to the public as entirely lacking in common-sense); but when the zeal of a reporter to supply news gets the better of his discretion, and he indulges in personalities...
...find now a couple of bits that we recognize as exceedingly familiar and as thoroughly worthless as when they first dropped into the tide of discussion that sets so regularly towards Harvard. In the first place we would in no way discourage the use in argument of any harmless little fiction of an elective system, whose effects externally, internally, and eternally are the explanation of every new wrinkle and every old familiar feature at Harvard. Yet in our own college circle the elective system has so long been humorously employed as the open sesame to the explanation and causes...
...only on what has been beautified by nature, but also on what has been dignified by history. I need not state how I immediately purchased the guide-book recommended by the editorial pen, or how my chum ridiculed my enthusiasm. He consented, however, to humor me in my harmless delusion; and on the appointed afternoon, accompanied me, guide-book in hand in search of historic notoriety. I do not intend to describe the interesting places that I visited; that feat has been eloquently achieved by the before-mentioned guide-book. It is only of their influence on my character that...