Word: fear
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...them of breaking training. When asked why they are looking badly, or why they are slow and unsteady in their movements, they "don't know, but suppose they are being worked too hard." Of course they are! When individuals on the team succumb under those circumstances, there arises a fear of "overtraining," and that fear of hard work has defeated Harvard more than once. It is a well-known fact that the Yale teams do a greater quantity of work than Harvard's; as a result their "team work" is superior...
...hardly too much to say that the acting of this comedy at the Museuce is up o the standard of the play. Both play and acting have faults, but neither are failures. While few in the audience were blind to the faults of either, few would change them for fear of making them worse. Mr. George W. Wilson received applause which no audience could neglect from habit, or deny to desert. Sir Charles Pomander does not furnish much tribute to Mr. Mason and a flat part got a flat rendering from Mr. Boniface. Miss Annie M. Clarke...
...Mott Haven games next season. Unless a dual league is formed, therefore, we will be out of all systematized intercollegiate athletics, since in view of the new regulation Princeton will hardly propose a triple league. But after all, what of this? Hardly such dire results, we believe, as some fear. Harvard certainly has never been in so favorable a position for restricting her athletics as she is today. It is absurd, too, to suppose that she will lack contestants, even though she be a member of no league. Her position is such before the public that league or no league...
Cornell men think that Yale refused their challenge of an eight-oared race for fear of being defeated...
...breach between the conservative government of our university and the more democratic body of students, and thus as spokesman of both groups, he helped each to understand the attitude of the other on matters of general college interest. His loss will be severely felt, and Harvard will not, we fear, soon fill his place again...