Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...match properly conducted is merely a display of dexterity and grace, attributes which our fair friends are especially quick to admire, and with justice as well. If any lady, however, is so weak as to be frightened or affected in any way by a contest which involves much less danger and physical pain than very many of those less conspicuous matches which she looks upon unmoved, then she is quite at liberty to stay away. We believe that the feather-weight sparring gives a zest to the second meeting which our lady friends enjoy as much...
...danger to the books from fire, I may say that the present state of electrical science is such as to make it highly improbably that the Harvard College library is the only place on the face of the earth which cannot be lighted safely by electricity...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - The suggestions for the formation of a university club, now being made on all side, are timely, and should meet with consideration from both students and instructors in a great college like Harvard where there is danger of a man's personality being swamped and lost in the vortex of college life, and where it is almost impossible for a student to get any personal supervision or come under the beneficial influence of an instructor's personality, such an institution would be of the highest benefit. It is safe to say that a large part...
Christianity aims at two things, to perfect man, and to perfect society. Society progresses through the harmonious working of two factors, the individual and the community. The low estimate put upon the individual was one of the causes of the fall of the Greek republics. One danger lies in the tendency to subordinate the state to the individual. Passing to the christian conception of the world, the speaker emphasized the idea that when we speak of the kingdoms of this world as destined to become the kingdoms of our Lord, we mean not merely China and Japan, but the kingdoms...
...with regard to the attitude assumed towards Harvard. This must always be the feeling towards all innovators, - and Harvard has certainly introduced many innovations of late years into her collegiate life. Therefore, while deprecating such a feeling toward us, we should like to point at one as a possible danger to our friends who hold the reins of authority at our sister college. We hope that they will examine most thoroughly the changes which have been made with us and will profit, we speak with all modesty, by the victories which we have...