Word: fates
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would be inconsistent with the usual ordering of fate for one college to win all the victories that are to be won on land and river in one year. Cornell has the laurels of the Freshman race, and she had to work hard to get them. The men of '81 pulled a plucky and determined race, and showed themselves a more manly set of men than the unfavorable criticism of the college was, at one time, inclined to admit. The warnings that the Advocate urges upon the present Freshman class are wise and practical. It is useless to undertake...
...like fate is waiting
...strange that Fate, who's old and gray...
...fate confined with harsh decree...
...table apart from the triclinium where their elders reclined, and, we may justly suppose, did not add their valuable fund to the resources of polite conversation. The little Britannicus is said to have been sitting at one of those tables when he took the poison. His fate was, to be sure, a severe and an undeserved one; but it was hardly more cruel than the doom I desired would fall on the imp who haunted me last evening...