Word: dares
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...particularly of the system of "cramming," now so much in vogue and which our examination system so carefully nurtures, that we wish to speak. It is absolutely certain, as things are here at present, that certain men will be absent from as many recitations as they dare, and will do little if any work on their courses up to the time for examination. Then with the aid of tutos and a few days of hard "cramming," they will acquire enough of the leading matter of the subjects in hand to pass the lest prescribed, and be permitted to go along...
...brave the storm I did not dare...
...part of our own land is there a greater munificence than in Massachusetts. Its citizens ennoble the acquisition of riches by devoting their affluence to the service of popular beneficence. Generosity has become a public sentiment. Indeed, it is already proverbial that no rich New Englander would dare to imperil his future happiness by failing to make a bequest to Harvard. This wise benevolence, so nobly characteristic of the public spirit of this Commonwealth, will yet enrich the foundations of Harvard beyond English precedent. Ampler revenues, increasing the corps of instruction, and furnishing appliances for the illustration of every department...
...long as she pays no heed to any of them. There is only one thing which could do her any harm. That would be to get some professors who believed at the same time 'both sides' of a scientific question, or who, having scientific convictions, could not or dare not express them. She is safe - too safe. That is what is the matter...
...into the same paths of poetry, which are now worn so bare that the tardy straggler finds nothing to reward his journeyings. The Argo has excelled, as all will agree, in these foreign and exotic forms, and has from time to time published verses highly creditable, but we scarcely dare to whisper our opinion that it has gone beyond the bounds of moderation in restricting its effusions to these peculiar forms, which inevitably fall upon the reader, because only certain turns of idea and expression are possible in them, while the simpler old fashioned straight-away measures allow all themes...