Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...extend to you our warmest greetings as Harvard men, and yet we are desirous of warning you against the indiscretions so common to men entering college. At this early period of your college career we urge you to be discreet, when it will often prove far easier to be rash, and earnest when you will find it pleasanter to be superficial. Some day we assure you, the time will come when you will be glad of every second thought you devoted to the conduct of your freshman year...
...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...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: It may seem somewhat rash at the present time to suggest the formation of another club. None the less I should like to do so. The departments of French, German and the Ancient languages have a Conference, a Verein and a Classical Club. Why should there not be an English Literature Club for the benefit of men interested in English, whether taking courses in it or not? It seems to me that an organization embracing both instructors and undergraduates would do much towards removing grounds for the ocmplaint of deadness in the English department. The undergraduates should...
Politics is a field where earnest workers are much needed. Discard the habit of sneering at politics and politicians. A college professor once committed a murder; it would be rash to assume that all college professors are inclined to homicide. It is the duty of every man of brains and leisure to go into politics. Be in sympathy with your age and country, - your country especially. Anglomania is synonymous with a weak intelligence and an imperfect education...
Another plan, seemingly rash, is often used, and by its very daring is frequently successful. Writing paper, such as is used in the examinations, is procured, and two or three sheets are closely covered with formulae or whatever else is likely to prove useful. When the time comes for the "cribber" to enter the examination room he places the sheets under his tightly-but-toned coat, walks boldly into the lions' den, seats himself at his table, and hastens to write a page or two of something or other. Just what it is doesn't matter. The main object...