Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Then came the fatal extra-period, with the CRIMSON playing in such a fashion as to revelate the Lampoon. To mention Phillips' ineffectual ground-covering dashes extending from the Stadium Bridge to the Cambridge Boat Club and always ending in a serious fall over the puck, the fiendish body-checking of Captain Batchelder, or the unapproachable rushes of Baker, suspected by the Lampoon to be "H.A.H." in disguise, were to insult the other members of the team. Suffice it to say that it was Baker, unhindered by the funny tired men, unaided, and unsupported who scored the winning and only...
...connecting the advances of knowledge in Germany and America to one another and has been an important factor in bringing together, in exchange professorships and otherwise, Harvard and the German universities. The fault of all German journalism seems to be a lack of aggressiveness, but this is not a fatal fault...
...plays outside of tackle and around the ends. Camp, of Yale, should outkick any man Harvard has, while the Harvard backs can catch punts better than the Yale backfield men. This is Yale's greatest weakness, the handling of punts by the backfield, and unless remedied will prove fatal next Saturday as it did today, for the Harvard ends follow the ball well...
...leaves the compilation and preparatory work to the tutor deprives himself of the most essential part of the review. The bird's-eye view of a subject is of little value without the foundation, and when an examination question involves reasoning the lack of familiarity with the groundwork is fatal. That a thinking student should purposely deprive himself of the most essential part of his preparation and pay for the privilege is hardly rational...
This action is certainly worthy of commendation. Too often intense rivalry and a keen desire to win combine to deprive contests of all sportsmanship. Such a condition cannot fall to be detrimental to the best interests of sport and is apt to prove fatal to the fundamental purpose of athletic rivalry--the encouragement and furtherance of pleasant personal relations between different colleges...