Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final agreement regarding the election of Freshmen. It is important to the success of the movement which resulted in this agreement that the matter should be brought to the attention of all incoming Freshmen and should be kept in mind by members of the clubs themselves. The greatest danger to the success of the agreement lies in the chance that some members of one or more clubs will forget or not understand some provisions of the agreement and do something which will seem to the members of some other club or clubs to violate its terms. They in turn...
...while Gill was taking third. With Captain Greene up, Scully raced toward second, but as Gill started home, Abbot took the throw in short field and returned it to Harte in time to prevent the run. This was the only time that Mahan's shut-out was seriously in danger...
...college education is that it does form the best transition from boyhood to manhood, that it gives opportunity for the growth of the maximum of responsibility with the minimum of risk. If, however, supervision on the part of the office is carried beyond a certain point, there is great danger that more harm than good will result. While possibly gaining from better direction of his activities, the undergraduate will inevitably lose in the larger and more vital matter of the development of individual responsibility and initiative...
...would not be diletanti we are thus of necessity specialists. No modern system of distribution denies this. It attempts instead of counteract the consequent but inevitable danger of narrowness (which Mr. Burke quite properly emphasizes) by insuring the student against intolerant ignorance of other fields than his own, and by insisting on breadth of culture as the best basis for concentration. But if Mr. Burke's hypothetical undergraduate, with his atrophied power of choice, necessitates nothing less than a complete retraction of elective ideals, rather than the retention of their best elements in a synthetic reform, the whole problem...
Each member of the group realizes that they will be exposed to far more danger than if they were fighting in the trenches, for one bite from a louse, the vermin which carries the typhus, is considered fatal. The spirit and courage of the men who have volunteered to fight this pest which is now ravaging Servia, is, as Professor Sedgwick and others have remarked, nothing short of heroic...