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...real danger which threatens the visiting public at New London - or which would threaten it were the present managers to be superseded by others less careful and sagacious - is not connected with the observation train, but attaches rather to a theory of management hinted at by the writer who supplied to the Nation its report of the boat race. His suggestion that perhaps the addition of subsidiary 'events' might attract a larger crowd to the Harvard-Yale contest, would, if adopted by the managers, have a tendency to put more lives in peril annually than the running of a dozen...
...faithful performance of duty does not justify the confidence which the Faculty has reposed in the class. At all events, this regulation must have a fair trial, and we should like to know by what right a professor undertakes to annul or abridge this privilege, or to threaten students with conditions, merely because they avail themselves of a right granted by the Faculty ? We had supposed that professors, as well as undergraduates, are amenable to the regulations determined upon by the government of the College, and the former ought to set an example of obedience to the rules established...
...threaten savagely...
...That threaten to accelerate...
...many different kinds of dogs owned by H. U. students, the brown ones threaten to become the greatest nuisance, for, in general (observing Soph. loquitur), there is no end to them...