Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...lesson they contain cannot be too strongly emphasized. This is the season when hard work is most fatiguing, and yet most necessary. An ambitious student, trusting to the approaching vacation for rest and recovery, is tempted to strain every nerve, and, before he is hardly conscious of his danger, he may do himself irreparable injury. Even the strongest constitution and the most faithful exercise will not enable a man persistently to deprive his mind of needful rest; and if he gives to study the hours which belong to sleep, he must sooner or later break down...
What reason is there for making such a restriction upon a valuable elective? Seniors may be better fitted for it than Juniors; but, also, Graduates are better fitted than Seniors, and the elective might be placed among the Graduate courses. There is no danger that the elective will be overcrowded, since the instructor retains the power of limiting the number who take the elective. The same reason will shut out any men who, having the gift of talking indefinitely without much thought, think to find this course a soft elective...
...University. Just as you are rushing in, some one coming out is sure to drive the door between your eyes, - the result of which action is to remind you of required Astronomy. Under ordinary circumstances one comes out under stronger incentive than one goes in, and this additional danger from those deadly doors is enough to discourage all attendance within the portals of University. The College might, at a trifling expense, put glass into the doors, and thus give a man at least a chance to avoid being knocked down before he enters the recitation-room. Another danger which awaits...
...estimated that there are 3,000 dogs in the town of Oxford. Danger from hydrophobia is apprehended...
...understand that the Faculty have satisfied themselves that certain members of the Senior class have been abusing the privilege of voluntary recitations. Accordingly this privilege has been taken away from them for the space of two months, and the Faculty have warned others that they were in danger of having their privilege taken away in a like manner. No fixed number of cuts is allowed, but each man's case is treated by itself; hence it is impossible to regulate one's cutting by any fixed rule, and each must decide for himself what "abusing the privilege "means...