Word: harmlessness
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...That harmless pigskin with the symbol, A. B. on it, is at present causing no little discussion. The following letter from the Nation, the hotbed of this discussion, may prove interesting...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - May, I trespass a little upon your space to make a few remarks on a subject, which, so far as I see, has as yet been but gingerly handled? The day after the "rush" between '88 and '89, harmless and good-natured as it was, the Boston press, notably the Herald, was filled with highly sensational accounts of the affair; these statements were at once copied over the country under the title of "Ruffianism at Harvard." As a specimen of the incorrect statements that got afloat, I received yesterday a letter from an anxious relative asking about...
...regard to the much discussed rush between the two lower classes, it should be said that, in so far as any ill feeling or danger to the participants was concerned, the affair was harmless and worthy but little attention. Coming as it did, however, soon after the hazing affairs at Princeton, and the rough and tumble rush at Yale, it cannot fail to draw down upon the college a great mass of unkind criticism. The city press is only too glad to magnify the most trivial college scrapes until they assume the dignified proportions of a riot, as many...
...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...