Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classified the future evils as economic political, social and moral. He admitted that the present economic objections did not justify the restrictive policy, but prophesied that the future was full of danger of economic nature. The political objections to the Chinese were based on their ignorance of our political system, and their unwillingness to participate...
...sophomore. In the heavy weight spree, we see evidence of the spirit in which Princeton is conducting foot-ball mattes this year. The candidates selected were foot-ball men, but, as the managers of the spree were unwilling that foot-ball men should incur the danger of a heavy fall, the candidates were barred out, and without protest acquiesced to the decision of the managers. The freshmen had no man to put up against the other candidate of the sophomores, and so lost the heavy weight...
...much bigger men they will be in every way. Of all these things, it is to be hoped they will not be disappointed, that in a certain degree we believe they will not. But at the end there are two things of importance to be avoided, the danger of self-satisfaction, that is, of conceit for too much wisdom, and the danger of losing by neglect all that has actually been gained. The former danger is, the writer believes, the lesser. Four years at a college of any spirit at all are quite likely to take a large portion...
...regard to the much discussed rush between the two lower classes, it should be said that, in so far as any ill feeling or danger to the participants was concerned, the affair was harmless and worthy but little attention. Coming as it did, however, soon after the hazing affairs at Princeton, and the rough and tumble rush at Yale, it cannot fail to draw down upon the college a great mass of unkind criticism. The city press is only too glad to magnify the most trivial college scrapes until they assume the dignified proportions of a riot, as many...
...example, what word is there which so exactly expresses the idea of hard, prolonged study as the common college word, "grinding"? But this expressive word is coming to be used so commonly and indiscriminatingly, being applied by some to every degree of application in studying, that it is in danger of losing all its force...