Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yard pass from H. C. Flower '19, which put the ball on Yale's 35-yard line, but evidently it was decided to try for a touchdown and victory rather than for a probable field goal and a tie score, so the forward passing game was continued to a fatal end when Neville caught one of W. J. Murray '18's passes...
Should Germany fail to reach Bukarest and Galatz she will suffer her greatest set back in the war; perhaps a fatal set back. Should she, on the contrary, secure the economic and transportation facilities that are involved, her hand will be stronger than at any moment for a diplomatic move. With either Russia or Japan she may come to terms, and if with the latter then we should be face to face with our own hour of peril...
...Saturday contest. The importance of cheering and enthusiasm can be recognized by recalling the Tufts game, which was won on spirit and a fierce optimism more than anything else, while Harvard revealed the danger of the lack of just these two things. The lack of spirit is fatal in a big game. There should be a great effort made to make the mass meeting on Friday night a great success and arouse here a little of the excitement that is stirring Ithaca at this time. A. SENIOR...
...significant thing, no doubt, is the offer of this sort of academic reward by America's greatest University. It involves a far departure from John Harvard's ideal of college training and implies a suggestive concession to utilitarian ideas of education. It is the fatal first step? Will there yet be regular courses in plumbing at Harvard and post graduate instruction in gas-fitting? Will retired bathtub manufacturers endow professorships there and steel-makers and motor car manufacturers found technical schools and establish scholarships in their lines? There are more things in a modern college education than were once dreamed...
...preparation for the game with Princeton Coach Whelan will give the backs a great amount of practice running back punts. The uncertainty with which the backs ran in kicks against the University was one of the greatest weaknesses they showed. This sort of play against Princeton would be fatal, as the Princeton team will without a doubt build its attack around the kicking of Driggs...