Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that all who can will enter the contest tonight, not only to stimulate others to do their best but to make it certain that the fittest men shall be sent to New Haven. The importance of this contest at New Haven has not been over-estimated. Its results will forecast in a great measure our chances for regaining the Mott Haven cup next May. This fact alone should urge every man to do what he can to make the trial this evening successful...
...spring advances the day set for the class races draws nearer and nearer. As yet it is a little too early to make a forecast of the winner, but it is generally agreed that the race will be as close and exciting as was that of last year. The crews have now been on the water for nearly a month, and during this time rapid progress has been made in the style and form of rowing, individually and collectively. The candidates for the freshman crew have used to great advantage the week set apart for the spring vacation in getting...
...victory of the cricket eleven on Saturday is an event in the college annals and is a forecast of the revival of interest in Cambridge of this good old English game. We congratulate the men of the eleven on their success, feeling that perhaps it is to them that we will hereafter look with pride and satisfaction, for who can tell but that our ascendancy in athletics may not be regained through our possession of the champion Cricket team of the United States...
...things seems to have come in. New methods have taken the place of those found inadequate. New men have come forward to put them into practice. This year will witness the unfurling of the pennant won in '85, and, unless we are far too sanguine in our forecast, it will also witness the winning of the same pennant...
...encouraged and emboldened when he feels that he knows what he is to accomplish. To him an opportunity is more than an exhortation, it is a prophecy. Yes, it may be said, very good, so long as the future he can forsee is pleasant, and the action he can forecast is noble; but if he thinks he is fated to be miserable, will that not extinguish his hopes, will that not break his spirit? Certainly, I might answer, and he must have a spirit broken already, who would not rather be sobered by truth than tickled by self-deception. Living...