Word: risk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seasonable ambition that something new may be recorded of them, that they have actually considered our request and have recognized its force. Then there is the conference committee. The advice of Demosthenes would be a good new year's resolution for this body - "action, action, action." At the risk of referring to a prickly "chestnut," we would ask the faculty to turn with new year's vim to the marking system. Toleration of this evil has been their policy too long. Let 1886 see some improvement in Harvard's back-woods musty method of grading students. For the students...
...grossest carelessness. And word has recently come to us from Mr. Winsor, the librarian, which seems to imply that this carelessness, presumably by processes of evolution, is passing into something of a far worse nature. For the sake of euphemism, however, and that we may not run the risk of making any great mistakes, we will still continue to call this failure to return books to the library "carelessness," and permit those who may read this to give to the word as broad a meaning as they may see fit from the dictations of their own consciences. Carelessness, when...
...risk of seeming to harp continually upon one subject we again call the attention of the undergraduates to the importance of attending the annual meetings of the various college organizations. We have been requested by the management of the Athletic Association to urge strongly upon the college the necessity of being present this evening at the meeting of that body in Holden Chapel. The importance of the work done by this association is too generally known to require an elaborate explanation in these columns, yet the sublime confidence shown by the students that its affairs will be managed, - and managed...
...lists must be in the hands of the Instructor or of the Assistant by Saturday, June 13; after that day no lists will be received. Lists may be sent by mail at the risk of the sender...
...subjects chosen by members of the Senior Class for the examination in forensics on May 30, must be handed or mailed to Dr. Royce on or before Thursday, May 28. If mailed or other wise sent to him, they will remain subject to the sender's risk until they reach him in person. Furthermore, the list of four topics must be written on one side of a card of the size of an ordinary postal card, and must be signed clearly with the name of the student offering them...