Word: danger
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Stone '07 compared the prospects of Harvard and Yale for the dual meet and expressed his fear that the University team would be over-confident, a great danger to any team. The meet can be won only by good, persistent training, consistent work, and a grim resolve...
Here lies the greatest danger that exists in present social conditions-the possession of special privilege is separating the leader from the people. Not in every case is this true, for there are many instances where privilege is used for the benefit of humanity, but in the great majority of cases it is not so used. Privilege that is not used for the common good must be given up, or it will end in the alienation of the leader from his followers
...most striking article in the number is a spirited rejoinder by the editor to the danger of Germanization and general depravity brought against Harvard College by one of its more recent graduates. Harvard cannot thrive without criticism, but this particular attack is unfortunate in more ways than one. The editor finds Oxfordization as perilous a development both for the College and for the critic in question-and disapproves any scheme which would tend to destroy either college spirit or class spirit. This is true: despite the amazing changes wrought by the reform of the curriculum, Harvard College is embedded...
...undergraduate opinion because its meaning is unmistakable and because it recognizes ridicule as the best medicine to cure abuses. In this case the abuse seems to be in the brutality of the game of football, a point which occurs as often and even more pointedly than does the danger of the Boylston Street bridge. Apparently in the mind of the average layman the new rules have not been entirely successful in this respect at least...
Aside from the unnecessary strain upon energy which would result from a protracted parade, there is always the danger of attaching undesirable recruits. The rougher element are unable to draw fine distinctions between College demonstrations and others prompted by less praiseworthy motives. They will welcome the opportunity to commit acts of vandalism under the cover of a large crowd, and as usual Harvard will get the credit for their deeds. We may exaggerate this danger, but the possibility of unwelcome disturbances should be sufficient to check any misdirected demonstration...