Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edes, Randall, and Payor are the other scoring threats of especial danger in the Bear backfield. Next to Keefer's 31 points, Edes and Randall have made the most impression on the score-board. Each has chalked up 19 points. Dixon, with only one point less is close on their trail for the runner-up position...
...college. Sports writers and alumni everywhere are likewise saddened to witness insidious attempts to make the American university into an institution of learning in place of a good tight paddock where impetuous young men may be kept for four years to run about much as they please without serious danger of getting lost or damaging themselves beyond repair...
...American colleges what they should be. I said that this is not due to the fact that youth is naturally self-indulgent or indolent; that in time of war college students would not volunteer for a regiment that would be comfortably and safely housed and exposed to no danger, but would strive to get into the regiment that was going to the front, amidst privation, wounds and death; that youth desired to sacrifice itself for something that was worth while, but that American colleges have by no means wholly succeeded in making their students feel that the intellectual life...
...utterly impossible for them constructively to give us what we fundamentally need in any other way, but it is possible for Borah and others in the strategic position in the Senate to obstruct and thwart this most fundamental project. There is genuine danger that they will do so unless the practically unanimous approval of the United States becomes sufficiently vocal. I believe the students of our universities, many of whom are already voters and the rest of whom will soon become so, can assert a tremendous influence with the Senate especially by writing personal letters to their own Senators...
...Wilson was devoured by the desire for power. If he had been a soldier and a man of fighting temperament, the Government of the United States would have been in grave danger. He was obstinate and up to a certain point determined, but he was not a fighting man and he never could have led..an army or controlled those who would have led it for him, as was done by a very inferior type of man of the Third Napoleon. When it came to actual conflict he lacked nerve and daring, although with his temperament I doubt...