Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Under the Old Regime," is the title of some dialogue love verses. They are typical of most college verse in that they have nothing to say. They differ from a large part of college verse in that the form is poor. Mixed and illogical metaphor, words unfortunately chosen are fatal to the expression of any fancy of the Old Regime...
...Corporation published in the last University Bulletin contains the story of how the attempt to suppress the third Dudleian lecture failed. The subject of this lecture, it will be remembered, is "the detecting and conviction and exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church, their tyranny, usurpation, damnable baseness, fatal errors, abominable superstitions and other crying wickedness in their high places...
...team who can get in condition for them should enter. These meetings afford a pleasant variety of training and the experience gained from them is of the greatest value to our athletes. Nothing trains the judgment in athletics like actual competition, and lack of nice and exact judgment is fatal in a close race or any other form of field sports...
...four subjects to be taken up in turn. The lecture which was to have been given last year, and which will be given tonight, was described in his will to be "for the detecting and conviction and exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church, their tyranny, usurpation, damnable baseness, fatal errors, abominable superstitions and other crying wickedness in their high places." Between 1755 and 1857 a lecture was given on this subject at Harvard twenty-five times. Ever since the establishment of these lectures, however, the college has been gradually outgrowing the narrow bounds of sectarianism, and now a subject...
...college. The petition for the western trip is now backed by all the influence which the college can put behind it. But it is necessary to suggest that it would be very easy to have that petition meet an open hostility which could hardly prove anything else than fatal...