Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...encouraging activity in debating is shown in the coming competitive debate between the Forum and the Columbia Debating Union, but there is danger that the affair be mistaken for an intercollegiate contest between Harvard and Columbia. The Columbia Union, which is the only debating organization of importance at that university, will practically represent its entire debating strength; and it will be strange if the speakers for the Forum are not mentioned to a greater or less extent as representatives of Harvard. If the Forum wins, all will be well; but if it should lose, the debating interests of the University...
...intended to have indoor practice in batting as well as in fielding and sliding bases. For this purpose a netting has been hung down the middle of the cage in the Carey Building. When this is in position two batters and pitchers can practice at the same time without danger of hitting each other...
...source of great relief and pleasure, after the excitement and wordy warfare of the past few days, to find that after all the "Tree" exercises are not in such imminent danger of being abolished as students were at first led to believe. The Class Day Committee was yesterday told that its last set of proposed changes will serve as a basis for an adjustment of the debated question; and that the position of the committee of the Corporation on the "scrimmage" has changed from what we were led to believe was their immovable opposition to an apparent readiness to agree...
...discontinue combinations, and that attempts to conceal large quantities of flowers will be discountenanced by the class and audience as selfish. With such a plan as this, allowing no chance for a man to be pushed up by some and pulled down by others, there would be no danger of tearing ordinary clothing, or arousing quick tempers. We think that the ill feeling that has at times been shown has arisen from the momentary impulse to prevent one's self being pulled down...
...flowers were to be lowered to avoid unnecessary roughness and to give every man an equal chance of getting flowers without the aid of cliques or squads, and a system of exits was devised by which the Tree enclosure might be emptied in four minutes, thus eliminating all danger from panic...