Word: risking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual summons yesterday we noticed that it differed from our last summons, received exactly one year ago, in that the seal of the college which, if we remember rightly, is to be found at the left hand upper corner of the card, had undergone a change. Now, at the risk of appearing somewhat hypercritical, we would remark that the false heraldry displayed upon the card cannot fail to be painful to the eye of the conscientious student. It is bad enough to be summoned, but worse when that summons is stamped with a seal which certainly approaches more meanly...
...almost double the effectiveness of his play, we, in our ignorance, cannot see. Nor do we see why a Harvard captain and foot ball committee cannot give their men to understand that they have got to do as they are told, and play as they are told, at the risk of not getting on the team,-as well as the foot ball powers of Yale or Princeton, a Yale or Princeton eleven will complete alter their method of play in a single year (and that means nothing in the world but coaching), whereas, our men seem to think that...
Themes not dropped into the wooden box in Sever 3 on the day on which they are due, must be brought or sent by post (at the sender's risk) to the instructor. No theme overdue will be received, unless it bears the signature of the Registrar...
Junior and Sophomore themes not dropped in the wooden box in Sever 3 on the day they are due, must be brought or sent by mail (at the sender's risk) to the instructor...
...Mason's rush in the Princeton game two years ago, were both done in this way. It amounts to reducing to nothing the time required for a long pass ; the opponents don't have time to get down. Simpkins and Thayer are painfully high tacklers. Peabody sometimes runs the risk of being warned for tackling too low. Holden rushes splendidly, but should be more careful about going out ; a man can drill himself into deeping away from the line if he tries. Holden ought to be careful, too, not to jump into the air when tackled ; that simply makes...