Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...debate originating in Mr. Adams' Phi Beta Kappa oration has steadily grown in vigor until now it has enrolled on either side the leading thinkers of the country. It seems to us that there is danger that in the heat of the discussion its true bearings should be lost to sight, and that in the minds of many there should rise the idea that college education and the value thereof was in some way called into question. However hot the debate may be, whatever arguments may be advanced, whichever side may eventually triumph, the great question of the advantages...
...Mead, '87, is, we are glad to say, improving, but the doctor says he will not be out of danger for two or three days. The injury to his head had proved more serious even than that to his chest...
...gentlemen who represent the corporation would allow such a thing if he could personally help it, we are sure, and why then cannot the corporation as a body somehow gain foresight enough to do what each member of it would do singly? This playing with danger is not to be encouraged...
Without a thought of danger...
...pleased with it. But there is one thing which we venture to suggest as an improvement, that is raising the corners on the outside. An English authority says "experience also shows that if from necessity or other cause the corners of a path are more or less sharp, the danger of falling for bicyclists (and of spraining one's ankle for runners) is considerably lessened, and awkwardness decreased, if they are well raised on the outside. And we find that fast men on the bicycle fight very shy of tracks unsafe in construction. The accuracy of our opinions...