Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hollister, Murchie and Bull of troop A, 1st U. S. Cavalry Volunteers, who sailed from Tampa on the transport "Yucatan," have been put in charge of the landing boat of their troop, positions of responsibility and danger if landing is attempted in the face of the enemy...
...danger of such a system is that it is likely to be carried too far, and popularize debating to an inadvisable extent. If the system could be limited to the two upper classes however, it would seem that the University Debating Club and the two courses could exert an "austere" enough influence to prevent an epidemic of informal discussion, and there seems little doubt but that such discussion would do much toward making debating attractive, and making something in common between the men who see each other a couple of hours a week in English 30 or English...
...office has many advantages over the old one. It has an arrangement by which a letter, when dropped into the special delivery box, rings an electric bell. This obviates the old danger of letters lying uncollected for several hours. Woburn and Cambridge are now the only two post offices in the country which have this arrangement...
When the country is in no danger it is necessary for the youth to consider not only his duty to his family, but to himself as an element of influence in the commonwealth. The needs of defense are not so much at the ports or on the sea as in the very hearts of our political institutions...
...regard to the manner in which undergraduates would receive a compulsory course, the opinion of those who have written on the subject in English course, has been almost unanimous in approval, and this we believe is general. It would certainly seem that there could be no danger of the opposition of future undergraduates. Those who come here take things as they find them. If applied only to Freshmen as has been suggested, there could thus be little fear of its meeting with opposition. The idea of a Freshman attempting to clog the administrative wheels of an established course, is rather...