Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hostile feeling arose between the president and the legislature. The monarchical factions seized this opportunity to overthrow the existing ministry, hoping to benefit from the confusion which would follow. All attempts to form a new ministry failed, and a revolution seemed inevitable. The dangerous classes of Paris were eager for a revolt and threats were made that if M. Ferry were elected president he would have to wade through a sea of blood. Mobs marched through the streets clamoring for Grevy's resignation, while the government prepared for a conflict. Grevy promised to resign, but was persuaded that the election...
...indicatian that we ever shall see them. Under the present prohibition, we lose the manifest good which would result from contesting with our superiors, and gain nothing in return. We defeat the duffers at Marblehead twenty runs to two, and find in our games with Yale that there is danger of a similar score-only reversed. Agitation may effect something in this matter; silence surely cannot...
...16th, the old complaint about lighting the library at night is brought up; and perhaps it is just as well not to let the matter be forgotten, but at the same time we must not be unreasonable in our demands and complaints. In the first place the danger from fire is great. Gore Hall itself-I do not speak of the wing containing the stack-is anything but fire-proof. It is, perhaps, not generally known, that those apparently substantial columns in the waiting-room are in reality hollow, and composed for the most part of laths and plaster. Secondly...
...Sargent upon physical culture in Scribner later, there is hardly an excuse now for the prejudiced and offensive view of the game which is taken by people in general-people, too, who have rarely, if ever, seen an exhibition, but who form their opinion from heresay. There is danger, no doubt, of minor hurts as there is in everything which enters into the domain of athletics; there is danger, remotely, of serious accident as there is likewise in the most simple forms of gymnastic exercises. But for dash and vigor and the highest sense of physical perfection which...
...believe) to Main street one-eighth of a mile. Turn right on Main street and follow it to Watertown, whence follow the horse car tracks on Mt. Auburn street to Mt. Auburn. The finish is at an asphalt crossing (which is smooth and may be spurted over without danger) about seventy-five yards before reaching the bridge across the railroad tracks. The horse cars go directly from the starting place to the finish, so that any one wishing to see start and finish can do so very conveniently...