Word: risk
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...know, that the Harvard Athletic Committee is working for the same ends as he, and every whit as earnestly as he. Yet he has attacked individuals under the committee's jurisdiction, without giving them a chance to speak for themselves. The course he has thus taken runs the risk of error, and it tends very strongly to cause such distrust and illfeeling as to destroy the influence which he might exert as the ally of the conservative movement in the colleges toward athletic reform...
Believing that I express a feeling quite general in the class of '98, I wish, at the risk of exhausting your patience, to add my protest to the new ruling in Philosophy...
...attempt was made to drain it, not wholly with success. The plans now being carried out will remedy the trouble. As for malaria, Holmes Field is more likely to be malarial than Soldiers. It was once a swamp. But now there is no more risk of illness on Soldiers than on Holmes. The time for a new boat house is not far away. Then all the interests will be centered on Soldiers, and there will be no more attractive part of the University...
...action of Greece is justifiable from the point of view of her own interests, of the interests of Crete and the interests of humanity. The negative claimed that Greece does not represent humanity but is acting for her own aggradizement; and that in doing this she is running the risk of involving all Europe in a war, a far worse evil than the petty troubles of Crete. Both sides handled their cases well; and in the first two speeches especially, some extremely good expository work was done...
...material evolution of the country at large follows. A nation like this must expend a large part of its labor in developing the material basis of its civilization. But is it not better to labor for progress by evolution than to risk progress by catastrophe? In American business today far too large a part is played by catastrophe...