Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half-back, received a temporary injury in practice this week, but will probably be able to resume play in a few days. It would seem that the team considered individually could scarcely be improved upon, but there is notice-able a decided lack of team work which may prove fatal. Princeton has experienced her usual hard luck in the injuries to her players, and it is to be hoped that some of the injured men will recover shortly...
...energy we can sum-mon-nevertheless, the disquisition would still be one of the gravest of falsehoods: it would be a falsehood because it is meant to convey the impression abroad that the whole system of Harvard is wrong, that from its very position the University must have a fatal effect upon the characters of large numbers of men within its walls, that the attitude of the faculty is one of connivance rather than of active warfare against vice. So far, however, from accepting what this person says of Harvard, detecting immediately the animus of the article, we find...
...getting a sickness which he may not be able to throw off for months. It is unfortunate that the heating facilities in Sever are inadequate for the purpose; it is also unfortunate that the examinations come during such cold weather. But, since the combination of circumstances is so fatal, it behooves the janitor of Sever to do his best to make the rooms in Sever habitable...
...souls. They are often afraid of losing their place in society, often their "gentlemanliness" stands in place of their "manliness. In our age, culture is regarded almost entirely as intellectual. This has its dangers. The danger is that it breeds a haughty reserve to the problems of life, fatal to all true enthusiasm. The desire of the cultured is often to be reflective spectators rather than ardent participators. In launching out on the sea of life, action is the discoverer of truth; practice will teach us how to proceed...
...definite proofs of such accusations. We do not wish to accuse the Yale team of any unfairness in profiting by these decisions-they played their trick and profited by the referee's ignorance; but deference to their feelings ought not to deter us from challenging decisions which were so fatal to us, no matter how unpleasant it may be for us, for the referee, for Yale, or for anybody...