Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international. Congress still concerns itself with little more than a wholehearted meddling in the choice of the next president. For the last two days, the Senate has devoted its time, almost entirely, to a discussion of the resolution introduced by Senator Lafayette which declares the third term "fraught with peril to the country," and "commends observance of this precedence by the President." The last clause is violently attacked by Senators Bingham and Gillette, strong supporters of Mr. Coolidge, as an unwarranted intimation that his services are no longer desired. And the resolution can obviously have no other meaning...
...attitude of the students toward freedom from ought but their own conscientious control. Other conditions mentioned are: the careful planning of the reading, in advance, by the instructors; reasonable restriction of the amount of reading and its definite relation to the courses which the student is following. The peril to the student is that he may regard this free time till the examination comes as a period of relief from work or may dawdle the greater part of it and then "cram". But most of the students are at an age when they should be ready to take responsibility with...
...idea of the "rays", not new, but come close to home, breeds startling ramifications. What boots a Bermuda trip at the peril of permanent indigence, or long weeks of semi-nude labor in the single sculls when the golden brown reward can be reaped with five minutes a day under the Actinic glow? Along with William Blake's little man on the ladder reaching for the moon, the cry of the undergraduate will be "I want, I want." A set of violet rays in the squash courts could do much toward alleviating this new form of malnutrition...
...Reading Period. The mention of special rooms where one may find books relating to related courses is one good omen; the fact that books may be drawn therefrom for a limited period is another. Should the students show as much cooperation as has the Library one peril of the Period will be successfully...
...been said with much truth, that when a man exclaims. "Something ought to be done about this", he is in imminent peril of making a fool of himself. This remark holds rather well in practically any case; nowhere more timely than in matters dealing with the more theoretical aspects of existence-- education for example. So keeping the obvious moral well in mind, when the Vagabond decided to make a few observations anent the current tutorial system, anent the current tutorial discussion--entirely unofficially be it understood--he decided also not to urge that something should be done about...