Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...decreed that justice shall not perish. Men may now breath the full essence of life undisturbed by threatening clouds of destruction. A world of international brotherhood, in place of a world of international strife, is now in the making. With the realization of this hope, with the ominous danger of war removed once for all, men may once more strive and hope and achieve whatever makes up a life of happiness and helpfulness. It is the removal of a great scourge, and the millions of Americans who responded in joyous celebration this week, abandoning themselves to the spirit of jollity...
...days of previous years. He has curtailed almost all activities which have no direct hearing on the present conflict. Old customs which had become Harvard's sacred traditions have passed out of existence. All this the undergraduate gladly accepts, knowing it to be the inevitable. Yet there is a danger that war hysteria may drive Americans to measures which are not marked by necessity. It is this consideration which demands reflection on the decision of the Faculty to substitute Class Day exercises in Sanders Theatre for those which have always taken place in the Stadium...
...perhaps the agency of the American University Union in Europe, perhaps both, does not seem to lie beyond the inventive power of an individual or group of men to whom the idea of giving to every Harvard fighter a tangible emblem of his university, to be carried into whatever danger, may appeal. Should it tall into the hands of the enemy, it could suggest only the quality of the backing that is behind so many Americans. --The Alumni Bulletin...
...history of any nation than England's Irish question. In the present crisis it has assumed so serious a character that it present a direct obstacle to a successful prosecution of the war. Conscription and home rule are inseparably bound up with racial and political prejudice. They involve the danger of great discord in British unity. They must be looked upon in two lights, that of justice and that of expediency...
Probability and grave danger of another German peace drive were emphasized by President Lowell yesterday in his address at the opening session of the Convention of the League to Enforce Peace, in Philadelphia...