Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon this formidable list with hardly the awe which the mid-years inspired, yet there is far more of fate hidden in these cabalistic figures than the mid-years could possess. Aside from this, too, the freshman who gets through all his other examinations long before, will find a fatal trap for his detention in the Physics on the last day. In the position of this and the English C, that is, the junior English examinations, the faculty has shown its pristine fondness for keeping most of the students indurance vile, when they are eager to fly to far distant...
...facts stated," and declares them to have been the offspring of an ignorant or a prejudiced mind. As for conclusions, he who runs may read. We trust that the writer's Elijah-like horror at the "tabooing" of the discussion of morning prayers since the last glorious but fatal prayer petition will wear off with his increasing years. It is high time that some reply, however inadequate, should be offered to the contemptuous sneers and jealous animadversions of which Harvard has been made the object. If a student of Harvard University, in the face of what he must, unless blind...
...main points of interest in the game were the pitching of Winslow and the fine support by Choate, the batting of Foster, and the sharp fielding of the home nine. The Princeton men batted lightly and failed to bunch their hits, while they made many fatal errors. The coaching and base running of Harvard were wretched...
...though resulting in a defeat for our team, was one of the most serviceable that could have been played. It showed clearly enough that there are amateur pitchers against whom our batsmen make but a poor showing. Yet our nine needs to make this discovery. Nothing could be more fatal to our prospects for the pennant, than to fall into an easy confidence in regard to our abilities. It is, then, to be hoped that another game may be arranged with the Cochituates at once, so that our players may again get the benefit of a puzzling delivery...
...believe she has a very good opinion of me; and indeed a youth of my turn has a better chance to gain the affections of a lady of her character than any other: but my mind is in such an agreeable situation, that being refused would not be so fatal as to drive me to despair, as your hot-brained romantic lovers talk. Oh, Willie; how happy should I be if she consented, some years after this, to make me blest." It is almost unnecessary to say that the 'Dulcinea' did not make him happy "some years after this...