Word: fatality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CRIMSON made a fatal mistake in this respect. Let me enlighten them as to the character of the Brown team. Though their adoption of the title Brown met no outburst of righteous indignation at that college, they were and are no more nor less than a scrub team of the same nature as the team they played. Mr. Hale, their manager, will vouch for this statement...
...went to New Haven to support them. The trouble with the nine seems to be, not that they are incapable of playing a strong game, but that they cannot at critical moments keep themselves calm and make use of the abilities they have. The lack of experience is fatal; it has shown itself in all but one of the important games, and, what is most discouraging, it continues to show itself with but slightly diminshed force. On Memorial Day the nine raised all hopes by their strong play, but yesterday was a repetition of the exhibition made against Pennsylvania...
...them on this account with indifference. There is nothing which will more surely doom Harvard athletics not only to be but also to remain in a bad way than such treatment. Causes enough there are which play a part in bringing defeat, but we believe that none is more fatal than a weakness in the University spirit. The men on the teams never would work as they now do if they were simply a number of athletes joined into teams for their own purosse only. They work because they believe that the University regards them as representatives, is interested...
...same time it may be questioned whether contemporaries do not always stand more or less in the relation of valets-de-chambre to the age in which they live, and whether there be not something in nearness which is fatal to the heroic. If Prometheus had a Boswell, would not the vulture have been Niebuhrized into the liver-complaint, and he himself, the thief of fire from heaven, into a palaeozoic Dr. Franklin who amused himself with electrical experiments? The truth is that so long as the nature of man is dual, so long as he is an animal...
...sophomore crew has, probably, the best form of any crew on the river, but there seems to be a fatal lack of speed. There are four men of last year's freshman crew in the boat; the rest have never rowed before...