Word: fatality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Arvin E. Case '17 was recently the victim of a fatal accident at North Sutton, N. H. While alone on a lake near by, he was suddenly seized with a violent attack of heart disease. Unable to save himself, he toppled into the water and, before friends from shore could reach him, drowned...
College Spirit is a curse when it prompts a student to stoop to any dishonorable act in order to uphold the prestige of his school. To place money on a game because of a misconceived idea that loyalty to team and college demands it, is a fatal error common among college men. Gambling on the athletic contest, even when prompted by an overflow of zeal, is an evil just the same as the game of chance conducted in a dive...
Cornell is always so powerful on the water that should the University crews triumph, and their excellent condition makes such an outcome not improbable, a dangerous over-confidence would be almost sure to develop, which might prove fatal in the final race with Yale. However, such a result is well worth chancing...
Home Run Almost Fatal...
...after all a higher animal, and as an animal, contains certain springs of action. Instruction is then fundamentally the manipulation of the underlying sources. The second nature is never fatal, but merely the result of the action of certain agencies. If exterior influences can create it from the underlying stratum, it is likewise true that it can be unmade and made again by similar agencies. The love of money, with some a second nature, is but the evolution of the principle of first nature that influences man to acquire and amass...