Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have been identified with them before entering on their college course. If defeated, these men are greeted with a "Well, what else could you expect?" If victorious, the general expression is, "what difference does it make? its only such and such a team." In the face of such inertia it can be understood how hard it is for men to keep up energetic practice, and how it often happens that the practice does not amount to much...
...Freshmen, to a realization of their opportunities. Every man in the class knows that to deliver a Commencement part is a valuable personal experience, and a service to '97; and every man who is permitted to come forward, but fails to do so, simply gives way to his natural inertia...
Perhaps he may be wrong, but far better have false opinions than have none at all. The unpardonable sin is inertia; a man who is not firm becomes nothing more than a nonenity...
...down to the field today. The interest which centres in the final contest is sure to draw a larger crowd than that which was present at the earlier games; but still there are not a few who will have a tendency to stay away from sheer inertia. It will do them good and benefit the sport if they will overcome this for once...
...With the present number, the Harvard Graduates' Magazine completes its third volume, and a word as to its future may be of interest. The Council of the Association decided at the beginning that, during the first few experimental years, while the Magazine was overcoming the initial inertia encountered by all new undertakings, while its necessary expenditures and its possible circle of subscribers were indefinite, the wisest policy from a business point of view was to make the subscription price one dollar, and to depend upon the treasury of the Association and upon voluntary effort for all additional needs. This decision...