Word: direful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consequent alarm of the people, and the rise and spread of agitation on the subject, it has become a live and serious question. In the December number of the Andover Review, Rev. A. P. Peabody says: "Christian civilization at the present time is encountering no peril of so dire portent as the loosening of the mystical bond, with the inevitably consequent profligacy of every name and type...
...policemen on guard for several days and nights together." But the law did not seem to have any effect and the faculty seemed to be powerless to stop the commencement festivities. Students were time and again warned against having plum cake in their rooms, and one poor fellow suffered dire punishment because he tried to evade the law by having plain cake. At last the authorities in despair took to scheming. They voted that commencement time should be changed, and that it should be more private than usual, and that the day set apart for this anniversary should be concealed...
...seen about the yard wearing silk hats and carrying canes as big as piano legs. We have detailed our fighting editor to prowl about the yard nights with a shot gun and a pair of bull pups. We feel it our duty to give adventurous freshman warning of the dire fate that awaits them if they perist in their rash ways...
...cover the back-stop fence, I am convinced that five or six inches of water would make as smooth a field of ice as three or four feet would. Every winter a mass of snow-ice accumulates on Holmes Field, sometimes to a considerable depth; none of the dire calamities which the gentleman predicts would follow artificial flooding, have ever yet occurred, and I am sure a few inches of ice will have no perceptible effect on the field in the spring...
...grant that one of the recent complaints against Yale is justified. She indulges in chess clubs! Such an indulgence is inexcusable, and forebodes the most dire disaster to the college. We have watched with greatest trepidation the rise of these baneful organizations here in Cambridge. Our college chess clubs must go, before parents may feel truly safe in sending their sons to New Haven or Cambridge. But with this one exception we think we can say of the tendencies of college life, with the writer from Yale, that "Our life is neither frivolous nor insincere," and that "there...