Word: risks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...injunction has been put upon the occupation of the building with the hideous name, but whoever takes a room there will be notified by the college authorities that he moves in at his own risk, and that rooms so recently plastered should not be occupied...
...proud, are not unlike the elegant states which grew up in the genial climate of Attica and of the Peloponnesus, - the modern prototype of which may be found in the shadow of the elms of the College Yard. And, to carry the simile a little further, at the risk of offending some very good friends of mind, the grim body of non-society men are not unlike the semi-barbaric peoples of Illyria and Achaia, to which melancholy region I shall venture to compare the chilly and cheerless precincts of College House...
...wear a Cardinal's Hat, or an Eagle, or any other heraldic device on their boating jackets. It seems strange that such a claim, if a just one, has not been made before, or at least that Undergraduates have not been apprised by their college authorities of the risk they run in wearing the Boat Club uniform...
...plain white flannel of our University crew is safe, we hope, from the attacks of the authorities. Let us run no "risk...
...know of one man who has made a specialty of English and Saxon studies, who had elected English 4 for next year. He has taken all the other courses in the English department, and was anxious to take this one, but felt it imprudent to risk his degree on one examination in a course so traditionally hard, and he has therefore been obliged to give it up. His case is not exceptional; others might be mentioned, but one is enough to illustrate the evil working of the system, and to show that it is altogether hostile to true scholarship...