Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...like atoms in a mass, drops that follow the current, who do not own their own souls. They are often afraid of losing their place in society, often their "gentlemanliness" stands in place of their "manliness. In our age, culture is regarded almost entirely as intellectual. This has its dangers. The danger is that it breeds a haughty reserve to the problems of life, fatal to all true enthusiasm. The desire of the cultured is often to be reflective spectators rather than ardent participators. In launching out on the sea of life, action is the discoverer of truth; practice will...
...forth with the stamp of their training impressed upon them. Harvard is broad and progressive, but under its present administration a certain amount of educational force must be lost. A strong scholarly nature will get rounded and polished by a Harvard education, while at Yale he may be in danger of becoming narrowed in his sphere of activity. A receptive, impressionable man, on the other hand, will probably be made a greater force for good by a course at Yale.- Springfield Republican...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- A note in your Fact and Rumor column of Wednesday touches upon the advisability of the tug-of-war. I agree with those who are discouraging these contests. A case where the dangerous consequences alluded to in your item did follow has come under my personal observation. It is that of a student in the Worcester Tech, some two years ago, who was so injured by the terrible strain of a tug-of-war that for months after he did not leave his bed. His whole life long he will suffer from his injuries. Similar cases...
...seems to me that these objects might be attained as well in some other way, without the danger of a classmate's being injured for life. At any rate, abolish...
...Facts do not justify fear of disaster due to the coinage of standard silver dollars, much less do they justify fear of immediate danger from that cause.- Laughlin's Bi-metallism, ch. xiii and xiv; Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 1, p. 326; North American Review...