Word: risk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...propagation of this work Dr. Strong is eminently fitted. He has won international distinction by his investigations and accomplishments in China, where he and a colleague, at the risk of their own lives and under the most trying circumstances, carried on a winning fight against the ravages of the pneumonic plague. After all other Americans had turned back, discouraged by the obstacles of lack of equipment and persistence of racial superstition, Dr. Strong took up the work and in spite of almost insurmountable difficulties carried it to a successful completion...
...drizzling rain at Hanover yesterday seriously interfered with the practice of the Dartmouth team. Not wishing to run the risk of injuring any of the regulars by scrimmaging on the muddy field, the coaches confined the work of the team to signal drill. The substitutes, however, were given a long scrimmage against the freshmen. It is doubtful whether Morey, the powerful right half, will be able to start against Harvard Saturday on account of injuries received Tuesday. He was replaced in the line up yesterday by Murdock...
...which means that if there are no more designs submitted, one of those on hand will have to be chosen. The result to having so few from which to choose will probably be most unsatisfactory. The question, then, comes down to this: does the class prefer to run the risk of having an unsatisfactory button, or is it going to see to it that there are sufficient designs handed in to ensure a completely satisfactory result? 1913 BUTTON COMMITTEE...
...consideration of work and especially of useful co-operation as a means of service to mankind. He took up the question of president-day industrial problems and showed that the interests of capital and labor were identical in many respects such as labor legislation for the equalization of risk between employer and workman and again in the case of compensation for injury to employee. He pointed out that the lowering of the wage limit was due to the entrance of women in to the wage-earning classes. In closing Mr. Woods spoke of vocation as a field for moral enterprise...
...better equipped for their life work after they have thus tested their capacities to the utmost. Granting that they occasionally are brilliant men in after life, we believe that the percentage is so small as to render a strain on one's vitality while in College, a risk hardly worth the prize...