Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...initiative into the great field described so often by the word collegiate. It has lead to a condition where a certain Southern university, which is still holding its classes in a discarded hotel, is campaigning vigorously for a million dollar stadium. Undergraduates and Faculty-alike have aroused to the danger. The former is demanding, the latter is providing, opportunities for scholastic freedom, initiative, and responsibility. Why quibble, when Harvard leads...
...this must not mean that the work done in the first part of each term is untouched by the examinations. There is a danger here that without a check, easy-going students may postpone the study and reading which should be done throughout the period of formal teaching, thus leaving it to be done in the reading period. A student might therefore find himself saddled in the reading period with a double amount of work: that which should have been done in conjunction with his daily lectures and classes, and that which is assigned for the reading period...
...Princeton 'Tiger': and although no judgement can fairly be made from a single number, and that a first issue, it seems likely that the 'Tiger' may prove itself some time a rival by no means to be despised. Naturally we doubt if the 'Lampoon' is in any imminent danger of being surpassed by either the 'Spectator' or the 'Tiger', but a healthy and friendly emulation can do no harm, and may result in a considerable improvement in all three...
...prominent in the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti--not, probably, because the University is a hot bed of socialism, not because the men concerned have sought to create names for themselves by sensational tactics, but because to most enlightened people it appeared that justice in Massachusetts was in grave danger of miscarrying. The courts, they thought, had perhaps been honest, had adhered to every rule and precedent, had obeyed the letter of the law to the end of the alphabet. But the very safeguards of the individual in this case, it seemed, had rendered justice in the broad sense impossible...
...flying field at Le Bourget. Said he: "I appreciated the reception which had been prepared for me and had intended taxiing up to the front of the hangars, but no sooner had my plane touched the ground than a human sea swept toward it. I saw there was danger of killing people with my propeller and I quickly came to a stop...