Word: risks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...article shows common in our Senator's time, he might well have added, "The age of humanity, of courtesy, of urbanity, is gone." One of the worst and most common of American faults is lack of respect and reverence for what is old, venerable, and well deserving. At the risk of being old-fashioned and out of date, I believe in treating age with the utmost respect and kindness. To my eyes there is no more noble and venerable sight than an honest, earnest lover and benefactor of his race, the last years of whose earthly career are soothed...
...Freshman class are more sought for to make up a class crew by a captain of their own class than they would be by the club captains, who know what some men are worth in a race, and prefer to have tried men in the boat, and not to risk a race by putting in a new man. The captains of the clubs have shown their wisdom thus far in selecting for their crews several strong Freshmen, but the best of those chosen will prefer their class crew to any six on the river. The great trouble is, the class...
...that Memorial Dining-Hall has become a matter of personal interest to so many students, its management becomes necessarily the theme of many communications to the College papers; but, at the risk of trying your patience in the latter respect, I take this opportunity of noticing some careful investigation and their results within the hall, and correcting some rash statements without. In the Crimson for December 10 will be found an ably written article on the needs of Memorial Hall, embracing, in a general way, nearly all the species of complaints made by reasoning students; smacking, it is true...
...little significance here at Harvard, and it would be well if, in this custom as in others, we followed the example of our English cousins. We have often heard, and oftener felt, the justness of the complaint that no one can "sport his-oak" here without running the risk of offending any of his friends who may happen to knock and not be admitted. A student is apt to think, when a man shows he is unable to work with him sitting by idle, and interrupting with a remark now and then, that he is considered a bore...
...panes of glass were broken. That the perpetrators of this act were not students is possible; but it is hard to believe that any one who could not claim the popular indemnity that connection with a college gives to petty malefactors would have ventured to expose himself to the risk of detection. In all probability this explosion was contrived by undergraduates...