Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer because it gets capable men, instead of just one or two attractive "headliners," to lead it, and because it avoids unlimited student discussion as the best method of conveying information. Schools which are merely genteel opportunities for practice in debating should label themselves as such, instead of making rash promises to "Solve Modern Problems of Education...
...gaping world has heard nothing further of this astounding proposal and now that it seems likely that little will come of the matter, it is interesting to conjecture what rash motives impelled the undergraduates. Was their petition based on the desire for unhampered week-ends? Or did they fear that in the new chapel they could not "with such consort as they keep, entice the dewy-feathered sleep"? It seems most probable that Princeton is able to "love the high embowed roof, with antique pillars massy proof" just so long as the "storied windows rightly dight" do not east upon...
...second election, it is expected that Socialists, Democrats and Centrists will join forces to elect a purely Republican Candidate. Ex-Chancellor Wilhelm Marx seemed their probable choice; but it would be rash to predict that he will win, for the attitude of the Socialists toward a Catholic candidate is not likely to be unanimous and the monarchically inclined parties were considered just as likely to coalesce in the last effort to snatch a victory. It seems a fair assumption that either Marx or Jarres will be Germany's next President...
Introduce Me. Douglas MacLean takes his smile for an airing on the Alps. As in his earlier picture, The Hottentot, Mr. MacLean is again a timid young man harried into rash deeds for the sake of a maiden fair. Constructed along formulistic lines, his gallivanting around the dizzy cliffs yet has its comic urge...
...hard across the greens. The gallery marveled. Such golf would never win for her against a sturdy opponent. They looked curiously at the little-famed Miss Hadfield. But as for her ball, it looped in even stranger parabolas from her putter, sprang from her cleek in bounds even more rash. Miss Collett won, "3 and 2." Next day she defeated Miss Cummings...