Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...There is danger in the editorial, for it fails to distinguish between the explorer and the mere aimless wanderer. Perhaps the four years of college are intended for "mental browsing," but unless some of that which we browse on is digested, wherein lies its value? A little too much emphasis is laid by the editorial on going out for everything, not quite enough on doing well what...
Scofield Thayer contributes some graceful "Anapaests" and there are verses by J. D. Adams and C. H. Weston, both in the freer forms now in vogue. Neither fully escapes the danger of such verse--the prosaic--but both have something to say and say some of it well...
...This was a fatal moment in the history of Israel, the nation which was bound to influence more deeply than any other the religious opinion of modern Europe, which was in sore stress, and, in fact, in danger of extinction...
...world, so as to make it possible for man to help and not hinder the plan of God. Men can regulate the future of mankind on this plan. But if we do not believe in fatalism imposed on mankind as a whole, we are, nevertheless, in very serious danger of falling into a belief on another kind,--the fatalism which is called the fatalism of the multitude. We are a little too much inclined to think that the individual is carried along by the spirit of his age, and that he has all he can do to go along with...
...There is danger that the plan of putting electric lights into the Senior dormitories may fall through, for $125 is still lacking to complete the fund. Besides the $3500 voted by the Corporation, pledges ranging from $1 to $15 have been received to the amounts of $1502 from the Junior class and 876.50 from the Sophomore class...