Word: risk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final week of practice for the 1919 eleven before the Yale freshman game began yesterday afternoon with a long signal drill. Light scrimmaged will be the rule this week, as the coaches do not want to risk any more injures. Neither Coolidge nor Canfield will be able to play again this season. Rich was out and took part in practice yesterday, and Brownell will probably be out again in two or three days. All the men came through the Exeter game on Saturday in good shape except Flynn, whose leg was badly bruised, but he will be well...
...athletics, some of us yet believe that the reform of an evil, provided the evil is not a crime, begins best after clear warning, and that the penalty is wisely applied first to those whose transgression is as conscious as it is unmistakable. Yale has shown that she will risk severity toward herself rather than unfairness toward a rival. We wish her to believe that her rival is not only a rival but a partner; that she is as free to use her students according to their deserts as if no intercollegiate games were involved; and that in abolishing summer...
Experience has shown that nations as well as individuals will break an unenforcable contract. But no nation, however well prepared, would risk engaging all the other combined powers at once. The delay occasioned by the judgement of the tribunal would allow hasty passions to cool and sober second thought would be satisfied with an adjustment which could not be made in the first anger. The prepared country would moreover, lose all the advantage of its preparedness through the delay...
Perhaps the most important justification for a college education is that it does form the best transition from boyhood to manhood, that it gives opportunity for the growth of the maximum of responsibility with the minimum of risk. If, however, supervision on the part of the office is carried beyond a certain point, there is great danger that more harm than good will result. While possibly gaining from better direction of his activities, the undergraduate will inevitably lose in the larger and more vital matter of the development of individual responsibility and initiative...
...Longfellow's poem, "Excelsior," who bore a "banner with a strange device," was a dangerous fellow, who richly deserved to be lost among the snowy peaks, banner and all; that Betsy Ross should have devoted her time to knitting mufflers; that Barbara Freitchie was a foolish lady to risk her old gray head; in short that banners should be scrupulously eschewed -- especially red ones...