Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...which the undergraduates are invited to the University teas at Phillips Brooks House, too many men who would enjoy these informal receptions if they attended, fail to respond. When Phillips Brooks House, tea, and members of the Faculty and their wives are mentioned in the same breath, signs of alarm appear. But those who have summoned up their courage and attended the teas in former years have not found them in the least formidable. On the contrary they have found an excellent opportunity to enter into sociable conversation with men whom they knew previously only in the class-room...
...slightest foundation. There have been in all 17 cases, none of which are at all serious. No new cases have been reported for two days, and those now under treatment are amply provided for in the new contagious ward of the Stillman Infirmary. There is absolutely no cause for alarm; the disease, is well under control; and the University will not be closed until the stated time for the spring recess...
...leading article, "Debating at Harvard University," Mr. E. R. Lewis sounds an alarm to more than the merely inevitable candidates for this branch of activity. He urges men of wide interests, as well, to participate. His plea is undoubtedly earnest and timely, though one could wish that what he conceives to be the greatest benefit from debating--the mental training--had been less dully expounded. In these days, when undergraduate parlance is so largely composed of indiscriminate, dis-jointed burlesque, assuredly much should be made of any pleasurable exercise which is likely to create real mental fabric...
...excuse. Most men in College do the bulk of their work not in the morning early, but in the evening late, and most Seniors refrain from 8 o'clock recitations, and have therefore no need and no inclination to be awakened at 7. Moreover, in exceptional cases, alarm-clocks are used, and prove quite efficient. This custom, then, which served a purpose a few generations ago, and which has, in modern times, out-grown its usefulness and become inconsistent with the liberties accorded in other ways to the members of the University, is entirely out of place, and should...
...fire-alarm box will soon be placed near the main entrance of the University Museum. Its number will...