Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...radical a reform as the extension of the system of specialization and differentiation in studies into the years of boyhood and earliest youth, as mere unthinking conservatism. President Eliot speaks, of course, with the highest authority; and yet the logical outcome of his views cannot but excite alarm. It is not easy to admit that the favorite modern principle of the division of labor can wisely be carried to this extent in the intellectual world as it is now being carried in the physical world. The fundamental principle on which the great republic of letters is founded, the very idea...
...Lyndsley of the New Haven board of health, and Prof. William H. Brewer of the Sheffield Scientific School, for the benefit of the patrons and friends of the college. The committee reports that there is no specially unhealthful condition; that there is no reason for alarm, and that the students seem to be in their usual health...
...lasting shame to have it destroyed or even to run any risk of destruction. There is no question that gas is slightly dangerous when used by students in such an inflammable tinderbox as the main hall of Gore. But the electric light would give no cause of alarm on this head and would be much better than gas in every way. It would give a better light, less heat, no smell and no care. The Edison system of incandescent lights with the pretty and inexpensive electro-liers such as are in use in the Bijou Theatre would be just what...
...have an indefinite idea of the location of the ladders, and doubtless one or two might be put into position in time enough to save a few men from a burning dormitory, but in all sudden alarms there is of necessity a great deal of excitement and confusion, and "what is everybody's business is nobody's business." Now a trained and efficient life-saving service might be organized if the men of each building should select some one to take command of their body in case of fire, and on an alarm, should assemble at the place where...
...speech before the Yale alumni in New York, Saturday, Pres. Porter assured his hearers that, in respect of the college's healthfulness, about which some alarm had been created recently, there was no occasion for apprehension. Not a single case of malaria had occurred on the college premises. Every one of the serious cases of illness could be traced to personal imprudence and exposure. As for New Haven itself, there was far less of malarial fever than there was ten years ago. Athletics was another important subject of which he desired to speak. Athletics were a blessing to the college...