Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years by the freshman class at Yale to hoist a pennant bearing the figures of the class year on the day of the junior promenade. It has been the aim of the freshmen to place their flag in some lofty position where it cannot be removed without much danger to life and limb. According to old time usage it is the duty of the sophomore class to at once remove the flag, and when this is undertaken there is a clash between the respective classes, and before the flag is captured the students have a rush which is admitted...
...this respect until actual loss of life occurs? Such a loss or even a narrow escape from such a loss - an event which is liable at any time to happen - would raise a storm of public indignation and reproaches against the college for failing to provide beforehand against the danger. And the reproaches would be fully deserved...
...meeting room in the gymnasium is an institution which should not be allowed to lose any portion of its interest by becoming a memorial simply of the remote past. Such at present seems to be the danger, for no new pictures and trophies to speak of have been put in since the room was first fitted up. There can be found there pictures neither of the crews, nines or foot-ball teams of the past two years. Of course such things can be much more easily furnished now than they will be later, and it seems as if somebody should...
...raise track athletics to the prominence which they deserve, and the Harvard-Yale athletic games would rank with the Harvard ball game and the Princeton foot-ball match. The expenses of the meeting would be more than covered by the gate-money, and the experiment would involve no financial danger. The question at least deserves a thorough discussion in both the papers and by all interested in athletics...
...though the recent Milwaukee disaster might move even the careless minds of the Harvard corporation to take some precautions in the matter. It is a fact that can not be gainsaid that the provisions at present in force in the yard are totally inadequate and ridiculous, and that the danger is imminent...