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Word: dangerously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there is but a very miserable wooden bridge, where there is always a terrible crush. The steering of the crews is a matter of the greatest skill; for a bump must be fairly made, an overlapping, merely, counts for nothing, and the coxswain of a boat which is in danger of being bumped is allowed to change his course as he thinks fit, to prevent the bump being made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOATING AT OXFORD. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

...whose mathematical attainments are superior, I hope, to his logical. There may be a disparity in the tact of impartation between the tutors alluded to, but that does not warrant the statements or conclusions of J. C., '81. If a student understands a subject himself, there is no danger of appearing ridiculous at the blackboard. It is true that comparatively few students take mathematics after the Freshman year. The cause, as it seems to me, is this: students come to college with a worse fit in mathematics, as a general thing, than any other subject, and the struggles against conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

...students of all departments of the University. No student can afford to neglect the twofold opportunity for physical culture which is furnished by a competent instructor and better apparatus than can be found in any other gymnasium in the country. There is opportunity now for all to train without danger of injury, and there is no reason why the so-called hot-house scholar should not at once become extinct at Harvard. There is no end to the good of this nature which the Gymnasium may do, and it only remains for the University to show its appreciation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1880 | See Source »

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