Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon themselves. In case of a fire in one of the college buildings, the Cambridge fire department, supported by the citizens of Cambridge, would have to be called out. Demagogues would eagerly seize this opportunity to grumble, as they do every other. Bonfires, it must be remembered, are extremely dangerous. On Saturday evening a firebrand was thrown into the cellar of Stoughton, and might easily have set the building on fire. On Monday evening there was an enormous fire within a few feet of the library. At one time Gore ball was enveloped in smoke. Should that building be burnt...
...methods and subject of the examination to suit a new class of female students; on the conviction that a "higher education" of women, secured under conditions similar to that of men, would "endanger their health and make them unfit for the duties of family life;" on the danger to which "future mothers and teachers of our race would be exposed by an unrestricted course of reading and study, and an intimate acquaintance as well with the heathen literature of the ancient world as with modernphysiological research;" and lastly, on the ground that the women who would avail themselves of such...
...protection tariff, and claimed that the general competition of the world will find where a staple can be manufactured cheapest before mere local competition and experience show that the tariff is prejudicial to the woolen industry. The speaker glanced at the labor and capital problem and said that great danger lurked in a breach between employee and employer. Mr. Hazard evidently spoke in sympathy with the feeling of his audience, and the close of his lecture was followed by prolonged applause. There was a good attendance and great interest was manifested...
Laval University, Montreal, together with its affiliating schools of law and medicine, is in danger of being closed ; owing to financial mismanagement...
...prime foundation of the evil of alcoholism is found in the fine theories which pervade society about moderate drinking. Every man that ever became a drunkard has expatiated on the beauties of the "golden mean." The lecturer dwelt at length on this error, and illustrated its danger...