Word: safely
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...keep them safe, had tied them down...
...which is to restore the number of contestants on either side to eleven." This is on the ground that there would be more goals made on either side, and that the game would require more skill. That there would be more goals and touchdowns made on either side is safe to acknowledge, but that there would be more chance for skilful playing is extremely doubtful. Skill in dodging would scarcely be of use at all, for if a man once got the ball it would be far easier for him to get through the opposing team than at present...
...knows that this is one of the seasons which are sure to come every three or four years, when the crew is composed, for the most part, of new men, and when there is all the more reason why their training should be most carefully looked after. It is safe to say that the men who are to row against Yale next June must be in better form than any Harvard has yet turned out, and that this is possible under Mr. Bancroft's direction we may confidently expect...
Dogs are not safe unless intrusted to Connors, the College dog-man; and then they are not safe, either. He may be found any fine day on the steps of Matthews...
...faces make it the ground for impudently demanding that we shall turn off our old and trusted scouts, and employ themselves. Thus, besides paying, in addition to the stated fees, the salaries of regular college employees by an ingenious and hidden device, we are subjected to the safe impudence of men ostensibly our servants, yet in no way responsible...