Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...advisory committee of the football association has interpreted the rule forbidding "unnecessary roughness" to include jumping with the knees on a prostrate player. This is a wise ruling as it will tend to decrease the danger of the game and will necessitate more careful tackling and falling. Every change which,like this one, tends to increase the science of the game without lessening its interest will be welcome as an improvement...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- The great danger of fire in any of our college dormitories is in the use of open grates. If these grates can be protected so that the coals can not fall upon the carpets, there is almost no danger. At present the only fenders are pieces of iron about two inches high; and these are almost worthless. By putting in proper fenders the college would protect its property much more effectually than by an unlimited amount of fire apparatus stored away in the basements of the buildings. Such fenders could be made very cheaply of wire gauze...
...debate was then opened for the negative by W. D. Clark, '89. He said in brief: The present institution has stood the test of time, and is still sustained by the reason which led to its formation. It does a great deal to obviate the danger of ties and of contested elections. The power of small states depends entirely upon the continuance of the present system, for under the system now being discussed, New York city would have more power than the four smallest states in the Union. Also under a change of system there would be a much greater...
...they had hoped. It seems to us that in the future it would be policy to leave the float alone until an order comes from the captain of the 'Varsity crew to take it away, and if any class crew desired to use the float when there was danger of its being carried off by the ice, a bond sufficient to cover all damages could be left with the Bursar. It is a pity that such commendable energy in rowing matters should be nipped in the bud, and at a time, too, when the college needs plenty of good material...
...would-be reformer as were the savage tribes of the desert. Mecca surrendered, not to the religion or personal influence of the prophet, but to a superior armed force, and that only when by the complete coercion of the roving tribes, their commercial supremacy was no longer in danger...