Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Paris dispatch says: While handling a revolver at Ville d'Avray, yesterday, M. Gambetta shot himself in the hand. The bullet only traversed the flesh, and he is in no danger...
...year a business of $50,000 is done, which is not an immoderate estimate, the income from commissions, which average about two per cent. would reach $1,000, giving a total income of nearly $2,500, or more than enough to enable the society to be successful. The greatest danger to which the Harvard society is exposed is internal dissension. Students are too apt to follow blindly the lead of a few men. It was this tendency which came so near ruining Memorial Hall last spring, and it was the same influence that suddenly put the hall on a firm...
...young men in an institution where co-education prevailed would be benefited by the constant association with the other sex; that their manners would be refined, and that they would early grow out of their boyish roughness. But I cannot imagine equal benefit to the girls. I suspect no danger in co-education to the character of the students; it merely seems to me an experiment without necessity. We know that if girl students attend faithfully to their duties at their own colleges they graduate accomplished women, and what more do we want? That co-education is declared a success...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: According to the rules of the athletic committee a man must know how to swim in order that he may row in a class or university boat, where there is practically no danger; but he may go out in a cranky, seventeen-inch shell, and, unmolested, find a watery grave. Is this fair...
...evolutionists; but how many of them are there who dare profess themselves such? At Harvard, we believe, no restrictions exist, and a man does not endanger his position by declaring his acceptance of the Darwinian theory. At Cornell, too, there are several avowed evolutionists who are in no real danger of being discharged. But when we except these two, we know of no institutions where a similar freedom of opinion would be allowed...