Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no danger of this country engaging in an aggressive war because we are too isolated and all we desire is to be left alone. Surely if we need a police force to protect us from internal trouble, we need one proportionately large to protect us from foreign aggression. If we ever arrive at the age of a compulsory international peace tribunal or Supreme Court of the nations we must have a force sufficient to help guarantee support to the enforcement of its decrees. Educated minds are needed to aid in these movements. We need them to give expert...
...best substitute for "experience," and for that kind of "reality" which pain and hard training rub in. I take the development of athletics as a sign that the instincts of American college students are sound; that they have a healthy appetite for exertion, teamwork, common service, pain and danger. But nobody pretends that the present situation in athletics is right, for the student body as a whole...
...younger men who supply much of the energy and who usually point out the new directions in which progress may move. With proper flexibility and sane guidance both perform a highly valuable function in civilization. But when conservatism becomes reactionary, and when radicalism becomes flighty, the car is in danger of losing its balance...
...second period both made touchdowns. Pennsylvania kicked a goal from the field and the Cornell captain kicked the goal from touchdown, making the tally 9 to 7 in the Philadelphia team's favor. The third period was marked by the close playing of both elevens, neither getting within the danger limit of the other's goal-posts. In the fourth period, however, Cornell scored 17 points through several end runs of over 40 yards by Barrett and Shiverick...
This critic has stimulating criticisms to make in regard to the danger of an "academic mind" among professors, and concerning the system of intercollegiate athletics. Most imperative, however, is the need pointed out for an awakening of intellectual enthusiasm. And this cannot be adequately done by our present lecture-ridden system...