Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team has been materially weakened by the absence of some of its best men, or the opposing team has been changed very decidedly in its make-up, from the games in which it has played with Princeton or Harvard. There has never before been such a thorough feeling of doubt as to the abilities of an athletic team. The fact that there will be two important games this year instead of one, has added much to the interest, and has also added much to the doubts of our success...
Editors Daily Crimson :- Without doubt a very large number of men, both graduates and undergraduates, intend to go to New York Thanksgiving to see the Yale-Harvard game. This being the case, it is apparent that very reduced rates can be obtained on any of the roads of travel between here and New York. It is rumored that a special train will be chartered on one of these roads, and in this way the fare is to be reduced for the convenience of all who wish to go to New York...
...Harvard's favor. Yet although laboring under immense disadvantage from this ruling, and the crippled condition of other members of the team-Princeton kept a team far out-weighing her from scoring for three-qnarters of the game. In the minds of Princeton men there is but little doubt that the issue would have been different but for the ruling off of Cowan, but the game is finished and such suggestions are useless. The contest became one in which Harvard relied on her weight entirely, using but a single trick. The disorganization of the Princeton team left...
...great extent, apparently, and whether due to the gentleness of '90 or the severity of the proctors there has been less this year than ever before. The good effects are plainly visible in the increased number of freshmen seen on the track and ball field, and it will without doubt have a most beneficial effect on general athletics...
...might prove a great blessing in lessening the power of some of the evils which beset second-year students; but whether any such society could be put upon a foundation which would secure to it inviolably devotion to the principles which gave it birth, is a matter of extreme doubt. There is not in college today a literary organization until well into the junior year. If a sophomore forerunner were established it might give the eminence not to the most deserving, but to those who have been most forward with their talents-something which is not likely to occur...