Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having spoken in the citadel of the coal barons, in the mining Mecca where no union man can show his face without danger of physical violence, and having spoken on the most forbidden of all subjects-coal and the rights of unionism-the Citizens Committee and the Civil Liberties...
With only 40 Seniors measured for caps and gowns the remainder of the class faces the danger of being unable to secure them in time to appear in the class picture unless they are measured at once at the Cooperative. Absolutely no Senior without a cap and gown will be allowed in the class picture. 1923 Class Day Committee...
...leading article in the March Advocate is itself an illustration of the danger of too much conservatism in expressing opinions. What the writer of "Political Sentimentalists" says about Mr. Boyden in Europe is hardly open to attack--it is an ingenuously clear statement of fact. But what he says about college thinkers is dangerous, if not a little absurd. He objects, rightly enough, to sentimental reasoning and arguments not based on facts; but he goes farther and demands that a man should either have a thorough opinion reasoned from complete knowledge, or no opinion...
Clive Bell, distinguished English critic and pontiff of modernism, declares cubism is in decline. It has served its purpose of freeing art from conventional restraints, and is in danger of becoming itself a mere convention...
...will deny that pillars of antiquity in the fabric of certain human institutions preserve for them a certain charm and dignity. However, where such pillars are substituted for scientific pillars capable of shouldering the increased load with less strain, grave danger is unnecessarily involved. It cannot possibly be that Harvard has extended the rule of the survival of the fittest in its fullest sense. This is impossible, for it is opposed to reason...