Word: risks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard standpoint. Sherman of Dartmouth won in 10 1-5 seconds, nearly a yard ahead of Lockwood, who barely beat out Hawley of Dartmouth. Captain Dodge failed to place. In the 220-yard dash it was thought best not to start Captain Dodge, as the muddy track made the risk of mishap too great. This event was also won by Sherman in the slow time of 22 3-5 seconds. Hawley was second and T. S. Blumer '10 was third...
...risk of seeming trivial we desire to call attention to a peculiar manner in which certain ambitious students are endeavoring to secure a generous return on their investment for membership in the Union. These thrifty individuals are consuming vast quantities of writing paper stamped with the Union crest, in writing theses and taking notes. Possibly these offenders are acting through ignorance, but we are quite sure that their own note paper would never be used for such a purpose. Is the slight saving in stationers' bills sufficient compensation for the loss of self-respect which can but accompany such...
...fellows. A timely illustration of this occurred after the Williams game Saturday, when a large number of brave individuals jumped over the parapet of the Stadium to the track below. They may have gained two minutes over their more orderly neighbors, but this saving in time hardly justifies the risk involved. The more jump is, of course, not difficult, but with an unwieldy and pushing crowd, there is great danger of falling over hurdles and other obstructions, and if one man falls, those who are following at his heels will be unable to keep from piling...
...risk of being thought an iconoclast in a community where traditions are all too few, the writer ventures a suggestion which may seem to many too radical for even a moment's consideration...
...James, Jr., '99, in speaking on "The Graduate Advisory Board," said that ever since the CRIMSON was started the relations between the business management and the editorial board had been very distinct until this Graduate Board was formed. The margin for risk and trouble is great in the advent of an incapable business manager, and therefore it has been deemed expedient to form a graduate committee whose authority is entirely advisory. This board can call upon the business manager to submit a report of the condition of the paper when considered advisable. Thus, although the graduates act as advisers...