Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Corporation has definitely announced that they will not allow the high bleacher which has usually been erected at the open end of the Stadium, to be built this year. The main reason which influenced the Corporation to take this step was the fear of accident. The danger of tire with the wooden bleachers was considered to be too great...
...regular stands around the track will be erected this year for the Yale game, and low bleachers will be built behind each of the goals. The seats on top of the Stadium will not be as high as they have been in the past, in order to lessen the danger in their case also...
Since the Corporation puts its prohibition of high wooden seats at the Yale game on the ground of danger of accident, it is hard to criticize their action. In view of the fact that the seats in past years have been planned to hold several times the weight which is put on them and that the fire protection has been more than adequate, it seems rather an unnecessary limitation. If seats at previous Yale games had been open to public sale we should more readily concur with the action of the Corporation, but since over 3,000 graduate applications could...
...Connolly related several interesting anecdotes to illustrate the hardihood and courage of the fishermen, in the face of grave danger, and said that this work produced a very high type of man, mentally and physically. He next spoke on the wonderful seamanship which some of the skippers possess, asserting that it was probably the finest in the world...
...present there is a growing unrest in the country, due to the agitation aroused by the educated Hindoos for a share in the government. As yet the movement has not reached great proportions, but there is danger of a repetition of the great massacre of 1857 if there is no immediate redress of the grievances which the natives have against the English governing party...