Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...honor, profit, safety, never rash...
...after recitation." This gentleman now declares that the majority of undergraduates are classed with him and do as he does; that more than half of us feel no interest in what we are doing, and, to raise our marks, we pretend to have that which we lack. He is rash, it seems to me, in judging others by himself. I know too many really interested students to believe that a majority of us are Digbys...
...personal interest to so many students, its management becomes necessarily the theme of many communications to the College papers; but, at the risk of trying your patience in the latter respect, I take this opportunity of noticing some careful investigation and their results within the hall, and correcting some rash statements without. In the Crimson for December 10 will be found an ably written article on the needs of Memorial Hall, embracing, in a general way, nearly all the species of complaints made by reasoning students; smacking, it is true, of the eight-dollar boarding-houses, yet far less unreliable...
...will be to-morrow ever so soon. She is something of a philosopher too, - a manly failing which few women have, - and if you venture to moralize on life she will tell you it is soon over and too short to waste in building up theories. If you are rash enough to talk about the world, she will say it is a very queer one, and few people get out of it alive. If you talk philosophically, she will call it nonsense; if you talk romance, will listen with impatience; if love, with a sad yet knowing smile...
...Buckham chooses to call her a "high-bred dame" it is perfectly correct. The gentleman, however, need have no fear that the high-bred dames, Mrs. Morrissey included, would ever so far forget themselves as to be induced, by the entrance of his crew, to do such an utterly rash and absurd thing as to bet on them...