Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...advertisement of printed notes has recently been distributed in Cambridge in the form of a telegram which purports to inform the recipient, as if on the strength of reports from the college office, that he is in danger of failing in a certain course. The telegraph blank and its envelope are those of one telegraph company, and the distribution is done by the messenger service of the other, It is hardly necessary to state that no information at the college office was accessible to the sender of the telegrams...
...accordance with the vote of the Corporation for improvements to reduce the danger from fire in the Yard, work was begun, Tuesday morning, on a six-inch water main to run from the Cambridge Water Company's main on Cambridge street to that on Massachusetts avenue, along the line of Stoughton, Hollis, Matthews, and Wadsworth House. Yesterday the piping was laid as, far as Hollis, and a hydrant was placed opposite Holden Chapel. The main will probably be finished by Saturday, and hydrants placed opposite Harvard Hall and in front of Matthews...
...Corporation has recently voted to take measures for reducing the danger from fire in the Yard, and to this end it has been decided to make extensive additions to the apparatus at present available, and to institute a number of other improvements, the total cost of which will be over two thousand dollars. A six-inch water main will be run from Kirkland street to Massachusetts avenue, along the line of Stoughton, Hollis, and Matthews. To this will be attached three hydrants, the first of which will be placed opposite Holden Chapel, the second opposite Harvard Hall, and the third...
...still more fundamental importance is the problem of preserving the quality of the race; for upon this depends the permanence of civilization itself. This should be sharply distinguished from such an inapt expression as "race suicide," which has so impressed uncritical minds. There is as much danger of race suicide as there is of famine through over-population. The real danger is that there may be race degeneration through the failure to multiply on the part of those best fitted to improve the stock; that is, those who have shown their talents by their achievements. Obviously, no race can maintain...
...Committee on Metropolitan affairs held a hearing at the State House yesterday, to consider the bill providing for the rebuilding of the Boylston street bridge. Senator D. W. Lane '94 presided. Major H. L. Higginson h.'82 spoke in behalf of the bill, pointing out the inadequacy and danger of the present bridge on the days of the big games. B. G. Waters '94 and Mr. de las Casas, chairman of the Metropolitan Park Commission also spoke in favor of the bill...