Word: grave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...universities must be urged with double force against the Spirit itself. If its editor fears that the college journals will injure the colleges they represent by giving too much prominence to this so-called "eternal quarrel," how much more injury will these institutions receive from an editorial making such grave charges as does the one in the Spirit. The college journals are read for the main part by the students themselves; the Spirit circulates among the parents of students and of prospective students. As these parents are not apt to see the college papers, it is doubly important that...
...Princetonian, after long and careful consideration, is ready to denounce Yale's methods of play and to challenge Yale to a denial of grave charges of unfairness in play. Its criticisms are deliberately made and are of importance-of great importance and interest to the whole college world. We summarize its views...
This badinage went on for some time. Judge Hoar laughed. Mr. Dana looked grave, and at last said: "This is well for a jest, but don't say it aloud! Don't! A loud word in the Alps sometimes starts the avalanche...
...According to the rules of the athletic committee a man must know how to swim in order that he may row in a class or university boat, where there is practically no danger; but he may go out in a cranky, seventeen-inch shell, and, unmolested, find a watery grave. Is this fair...
...brother of one of the Jeannette victims has preferred grave charges of negligence against the leader of the expedition...