Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...harmless selfishness alone were involved in this hiding of books, it might be allowed to pass unnoticed; but the injury it does to the mass of the students is too great to be passively endured. It seems that some decided effort should be made to detect the offenders and make them pay a heavy penalty for their dishonorable abuse of privilege. Students should themselves report any cases that came to their notice to the Library officials Men in whom so little confidence can be placed, are hardly to be reached in any other way than through their fear of severe...
...peculiar shaped snout which is used in digging in the ground for grubs. When attacked these serpents often feign death, and do it so effectually that people have supposed that they fainted from fright. The small green snake, and the larger black snake are both well known and perfectly harmless, as is also the pugnacious checkered adder. The rarest snake of Massachusetts is the fox snake, which is much like a large adder. The water snake is quite large and often dangerous, for it will bite severely and hold on for a long time...
Beyond the suggestion of resemblance to the Amherst Senate, and the statement that these conferences are an entirely new thing at Harvard, there is nothing in the above that can justly be called absolute falsehood; and even these two sentences appear merely harmless mis-statements, written in no spirit that deserves in the least degree the censure of the entire University...
...college events, and their removal is a clear subtraction from the chances of success with which these events will be held. A man has no more right to attack the prosperity of college institutions in this than in any other way. The custom of adorning walls with such placards, harmless as it may be when placards are obtained after they have served their usefulness, now threatens to become ominous for college interests. It is to be supposed that some premature removals will be made by men who are regardless of all other interests than their own, but we fear that...
Much has been said in the papers of late about "slugging" in football, some of it sound sense, some of it harmless opinion, much of it going far to defeat its own purpose because of its ignorance. The gist of it all is this, that there has been too much "slugging" this year, and that something ought to be done to stop it. With these two main ideas we quite agree. The recent development of the various mass plays where many of the players are hidden from view has undoubtedly done much to render easy the settlement of private grudges...