Word: doom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...relations with their Alma Mater and to live over, to some extent, their college days. If the concert does not satisfy this desire it is a failure. To demand, therefore, that the club shall not sing light and happy music is to impose upon it a condition that will doom it to failure...
Best general references: Party Platform, World's Almanac for 1893, p. 83; Sub-Treasury Warehouse Scheme, World's Almanac, 1891, p. 94; C. W. Wiley in Amer. Jl. Politics, 5:651 (Dec., 1894); F. B. Tracy in Forum 16:244 (Oct., 1893); Rise and Doom of the Populist Party; F. M. Drew in Pol. Sci. Quar. 6; 282 (June, 1891); The Present Farmers' Movement, J. F. Vaile in Forum 18: 714 (Feb., 1895); Colorado's Experiment with Populism; Public Opinion...
...good in point of mental discipline as any other, if pursued with the same thoroughness and to the same end. And that end is Literature, for there language first attains to a full consciousness of its powers and to the delighted exercise of them. Literature has escaped that doom of Shinar whcih made our Association possible, and still everywhere speaks in the universal tongue of civilized man. And it is only through this record of Man's joys and sorrows, of his aspirations and failures, of his thought, his speculation, and his dreams, that we can become complete...
...becoming common for men to say that Harvard athletics are in a bad way and to treat them on this account with indifference. There is nothing which will more surely doom Harvard athletics not only to be but also to remain in a bad way than such treatment. Causes enough there are which play a part in bringing defeat, but we believe that none is more fatal than a weakness in the University spirit. The men on the teams never would work as they now do if they were simply a number of athletes joined into teams for their...
...that the whole of Memorial shall not some day be turned into general tables? Classes quickly succeed each other, and if the Corporation treats the concession of one class as the obligation of the next, what pledge is there that every "temporary" concession is not a part of the doom of the classes that are to come...