Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...city before it could be reinforced. and then march to Virginia and help Lee annihilate Grant before Sherman could come to the latter's relief. The plan was a brilliant one, and had he moved at once nothing would have been in his way. He delayed when delay was fatal. Thomas, who had been placed in command of two corps and some scattered garrisons to guard a long line of communication, was ordered to neutralize and check this movement of Hood. But the troops of Thomas when Hood began his direct march on Nashville, was scattered. Part were watching Hood...
...athletics cannot be entirely obviated. It is well to bear in mind, at this point, The fact that even those who are not athletes do not, therefore, enjoy immunity from accidents. Still it is possible that a slight injury, to a person having organic weakness, might result in a fatal difficulty. Such an issue might be avoided by the requirement that every candidate for trial should be examined by a competent physician...
...Whereas, We do not admit that the employment of professionals is necessarily an evil, and whereas we consider the regulations fatal to inter-collegiate athletics and to the best interests of athletics in general...
...after eleven o'clock, or is it from the dislike to light which is one of the characteristics of the college buildings, shown elsewhere in the case of that gymnasium lamp and also the lamp at Memorial. To return from the theatre or a call in Boston after the fatal hour of eleven, and be obliged to grope one's way up stairs, does not leave one in a comfortable state of mind,-or of body, for that matter, as the latter often comes in contact with the walls and balustrades. Bad as this custom is under ordinary circumstances...
Health Officer Lindsley says that there were nine fatal cases of typhoid fever in New Haven during the month of November, and that this implies from 40 to 60 cases of sickness. Dr. Lindsley is among those who believe the typhoid fever at Yale may be due to the proximity of the two pumps on the campus to the drain pipes. He thinks the use of the pumps should be discontinued. It is worthy of note that of twelve men rooming on the entry of Durfee, in front of which is one of the pumps, four have had symptoms...