Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bloody Monday" of our day is, after all, a harmless affair enough, and but for a lamentable lack of self-control on the part of some of the participants in its rites, would hardly call for comment either condemnatory or otherwise...
...whether it is better to obtain this required rest by playing tennis or ball, or by playing cards and billiards, and going to the theatre. It is surely better to be storing up health and energy for future use, than to adopt the latter course, which, though generally considered harmless, cannot claim decided advantages...
...objection made to the plan, but experience has shown that any such thing as a decorous theatre-party of freshmen is little short of an impossibility. The temptation to turn the occasion into a tumultuous demonstration of boyish deviltry is too great to be resisted, and this demonstration, though harmless enough in itself, it may be, is at once seized upon by the daily press as a text from which to print long disquisitions upon the degeneracy of student manners...
...chewing, they try something more quiet than peanuts or candy,-say, chewing gum. Chewing gum is both soft and sweet, is warranted not to hurt the tender gums or the growing teeth, and possesses the additional advantage of being able to be used with comparative quiet. It is perfectly harmless ; even the smallest child can use it without injury. Moreover, the late Lydia E. Pinkham recommended it, and thousands have testified as to perfect efficiency. With such a valuable article in the market at a comparative low cost, we see no reason why the would-be chewer in the library...
...class crews are the feeders of the university in case of an emergency. If this, the only objectionable side of the quality which Harvard has earned for herself, be done away with, the term "Harvard Indifference" ought to be as much credit to the college, in a harmless way, as Princeton "toughness," and Yale "boorishness," is to the latter establishments...