Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lupo-"Time that leads the fatal Round...
...sports, not only in Harvard, but in other colleges, and probably if encouraged for a time they will eventually be able to stand on their own feet. But such a blow to them now as would be dealt by the new policy of the Athletic Committee would be nearly fatal to some if not to all of them. As a rule the minor teams represent the University in a way that is far from bringing discredit to it; this year the record in hockey, lacrosse, and tennis was especially creditable...
...field in every possible way. A cloud of witnesses around the grounds, holding his every action in full survey, seems to be regarded as a legitimate division of the army, which has its own necessary function to perform and the athlete in the arena is applauded to the fatal end, like Tennyson's warrior...
Argosy--"The Fatal Photo," by W. B. Foster...
...What is most needed now is a shaking-together,--a consciousness in the mind of each player that he is no longer playing by himself and for himself, but as a member of an organized body in which, like a machine, the disarrangement of any one component part is fatal to the effectiveness of the whole. Other things being equal, this idea of unity present in one team will make that team completely outclass another in which it is absent...