Word: fatality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard's play, as well, was strong, steady and courageous. Her fatal weakness was at the point wherein the growth of the game during the past season has shown the greatest development. Yale had built up and made stronger this part of play, while Harvard played much the style of game which proved victorious last year. The eleven played it well, but as each rush was made, the inferiority of Harvard's method of play was apparent. The backs reached the line all alone, or at the most with one blocker, and unaided almost invariably went down before the strong...
...general fault of the freshmen's offensive play was the slowness of the backs on the end plays, a fault which will be fatal against a heavy team when the lightness of the '95 backs is considered. Even the Cambridge Manual got through again and again, and broke up the block before the runner got past the tackle...
...They thus control the local politics of Boston, and constitute an oligarchy far more dangerous to this common wealth than any man like Caesar or Napoleon ever will be. The open bar is the chief instrument of this ring in the government of Boston. If a supply of the fatal alcoholic poison must be kept somewhere, as many people assure us, let if be in miserable out-of-the-way houses on the side streets, not in attractive palaces, on the highway. Then I can feel that when I send my boy on an errand he will not be tempted...
There is another great lesson which the University teaches-the overthrow of the doctrine of fatalism. This age is one of such great success and interest in physical things that many elements have emphasized the power of circumstances and the strength of chances. Now these theories, which are cherished by the public and nursed by weak minded men are most fatal and are the very ones which the teachings of the University tend to destroy. "The University is the last place to weaken faith in the worth of character" and is the place above all others to strengthen the belief...
...Judge Paul Dudley left Harvard a sum of money to provide for an annual lecture on four given subjects, to be taken in turn. The lecture this year was to be "for the detecting and conviction and exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church, their tyranny, usurpation, damnable baseness, fatal errors, abomnible superstitions and other crying wickedness in their high places," as expressed in Judge Dudley's will...