Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seem, this is almost the first meetings in Boston that has not been limited to particular clubs, although open meeting are held almost weekly in New York and other cities. The meeting is to be a ladies' day, for though there is to be sparring there is no danger that it will be too rough...
...answers have been received to the petition for electric lights in the library. With but few exceptions, these answers have been in favor of the petition, and the negative answers are, we think, the result of two mistaken ideas: either that the introduction of electric lights would render the danger of fire possible, or that their introduction would necessarily do away with the present reserve book system...
With regard to the first of these reasons, we would say that we appreciate the value of our library too well to subject it to any possible risk from fire, but by carefully insulating the wires, all danger can be obviated. In the Columbia college library, where the electric lights have been used for several years, the wires are so safely arranged and insulated, that fire is next to impossible...
...spring of 1889. We say this because we are confident of the good effect this practice with professionals will have upon our men. It will inspire them with coolness, courage and ambition, besides teaching them how to play baseball and play it well. We never did believe in the danger of contamination which our worthy Board of Overseers so recently deplored. Personally the men who play upon these professional teams are, as a rule, respectable, honest men who simply take this means of earning their livelihood. They do not dare to play in an underhanded fashion even if they...
...remember that, in that time, I have seen three games where, with fair umpiring, the score at least would have been different, it certainly does seem time for Princeton, in justice to herself, to demand some new and fair system of umpiring, so that there may be no danger of history repeating itself. I have only to add that this plan is heartily approved by a large number of New York alumni with whom I have conversed on the subject...