Word: hazards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leapt before he falls into the green pastures of a university. But lo and behold! once alighted he will discover that University Hall urges the mature student, through the general exam and tutorial systems, to see college as another series of jumps, climaxing in one big water hazard at the end. This conception of hurdles, series, and incessant academic strife seems at bottom false, an example of the commercialization of learning, and contrary to the most rational tents of teaching. The student becomes a mere animal running a steeplechase, with the dean's office as jockey; the ideal of individual...
Vince Bailey's shell followed Wilson's as Dean's and Hazard's trailed his lightweight crew. The three who brought up the rear were, in sequence, those stroked by Hinchcliffe, Rogers, and Bodell. It was Comstock's boat which crossed the line first last year...
...Hazard's boat: Elliot, Swain, Crocker, Blatchford, Anderson, Dinwiddie, Thomas, and Gallatine...
Cornell and Colgate are newcomers to the Varsity schedule, and little is known about their present strength. The fact that the Princeton meet is away will add immeasurably to the team's troubles, for not only will there be the hazard of the Tigers' three national stars, Van de Weghe, Hough, and Parke, but there is always the problem of a strange pool to slow up Crimson swimmers...
Professor Paul Hazard, of the College de France, one of the honorary degree recipients at the Harvard Tercentenary Celebration, will give a public lecture in French on "Voltaire" at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson Hall...