Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fine. The kicking is light, and not very sure, though they are somewhat strengthened by the fine kicking of the full back. The team as a whole seem to be afraid of falling on the ball, and thus often make bad fumbles which is, as experience has proved, a fatal mistake. The players especially noticeable are the half backs for their running and dodging, and the quarter back for his quickness. The rusher line is lively but on the whole rather weak though composed of heavy men. These are the impressions created upon a foot ball man by a careful...
...fatal fire of Saturday again brought home to all the lamentable inefficiency of the so-called Cambridge Fire Department. The college authorities and students will recognize the necessity of all possible precautions and care when they consider the little protection they can expect from such a body of men, who usually arrive at the scene of the disaster a half-hour after it has begun, and who do not know what to do when they have arrived...
Resolved, That it is the fixed opinion and firm conviction of the senior class of Columbia College that the co-education of the sexes is undesirable from an educational as well as from a social and a moral standpoint, and that its introduction here would be a fatal blow to the future welfare and prosperity of the institution...
...ball taking effect in the fleshy part of the left thigh. The wounded youth exclaimed, "I am shot," and the professor quickly assisted him and led him back to President Folwell's, where he was kindly cared for and a doctor hastily summoned, who pronounced the wound not fatal, and probed for the bullet, but failed to find it. In the morning Paine was conveyed to his father's residence, where he now lies." At last it seems that the vexed question of student government has been settled. Admonitions, summons and suspensions are out of date...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: You have mentioned the project for a freshman class supper. Will you permit me to urge it? I know that it is out of all precedent, but is that a fatal objection? Is it really any objection? The reasons for the plan are these: The freshmen of '85 have, it is undoubtedly true, proved themselves dilatory in several respects. We have, to a certain extent, (though for fair reasons) been somewhat backward in contributing to sports. It is doubtful whether we will be a "high stand" class, either, or will produce many honor...