Word: risk
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...something like this: Manager Moore arranged the game with the understanding that Harvard would put her strongest eleven in the field and announcements were made accordingly. Late Wednesday night a meeting of the coaches was held in which it was decided that it would be absolutely foolhardy to risk certain men of the first eleven in a hard game. An effort was made to have the game called off, but it did not succeed. Dr. Brooks stated last night that the team as it was made up was the best that Harvard could possibly afford to use; that F. Shaw...
...have said enough perhaps about the Bolles memorial fund, yet at the risk of being wearisome we must add one word more. It is pretty evident that so far as this fund is known it is favored, but we have the feeling that the machinery for making it better known and for collecting the subscriptions is running but imperfectly. To remedy this difficulty, a circular will be issued in a day or two to graduates of the college in the last seven or eight years, inviting them to subscribe, and collectors will be sent around among the students that each...
...Penalties for foul plays are not sufficient. (a) Players often deliberately commit a foul and risk the penalty...
...change would make the government run the risk arising from new processes and inventions...
...dilemma will prove least dangerous is the question which now confronts the men who have not yet bathed; whether to stand there until the hot water is again turned on, in the meantime becoming thoroughly chilled and contracting heavy colds; or to retire without bathing and incur a similar risk...