Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Such a lack of class spirit as is suggested by this state of things is lamentable, no doubt. But there is a great danger of talking about indifference and lack of class spirit in a forlorn, can't-be-helped tone that does more than anything else to increase the evil, and which is in nine cases out of ten a mere pretext to cover individual laziness...
There is a danger, however, of taking defeats too philisophically. The second game with Yale will be played next Tuesday under much less favorable circumstances than those of yesterday and will be sure to test the pluck of the nine to the utmost. That they have the best wishes of every member of the University, goes without saying...
...been heard in this new field. Too many men have gone to the Tree with friends, or for some other reason have failed to march in with their class and the "Wild ring about the Liberty Tree," which Longfellow mentioned in his Journal on Class Day, 1846, is in danger of being not much larger in the number of participants than it was 50 years ago. This tendency has greatly disappointed the alumni; and those of us who have been connected with the management of Class Days know how many queries there have been asking the reason for the small...
...more unique or more picturesque in American college life than the struggle for the flowers on Class Day. Harvard men everywhere are proud of it and they like to see the old traditions honored each year by the seniors. It is not a personal fight and there is no danger to limb or feature. It is a good natured tussle for mementos of Class Day, and it is the last time the seniors ever assemble as undergraduates. It is very satisfactory to note that the recently established practice of having the grand Harvard cheer by all the undergraduates and graduates...
...Christian family, that encourages education, inspires character, upholds the brotherhood of man, and has the charm of charity - the Christian church. It needs you - your personal interest, your sympathy, your correction, your life; and you need it, for without it and what it represents you will be in danger of sinking into professional Philistinism yourself, into the heavy commercial spirit or the ordinary educated machine that makes money, turns it over, spends some, and leaves the rest, without having felt the uplifting spirit that Christ reveals to us. One can speak of this with greater confidence in the shadow...