Word: luck
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This year's crew cannot be said to be up to the average freshman crew. This is due in a great measure to the bad luck, in the way of sickness, which has followed the crew since it has been on the river...
Both hurdle races should be fought out by the Harvard and Yale men, though Michigan is said to have a low hurdler who has made fast time. Harvard can hardly hope for quite as good luck in these events as she had at New Haven, as Capt. Lyman fell in the finals of the high and Cady was shut out in the trials by meeting both Bremer and Garcelon...
...epidemics of these diseases, and that students should not expose themselves and their friends by flocking to the rooms of those who have such symptoms. It is better for students to get professional advice and thus avoid the danger of spreading a serious disease, than to trust to luck that these symptoms mean merely a slight cold...
...last Saturday's defeat, and to scatter the gloom which would have followed had the Yale game been the last of the season. The first of our series of games with Pennsylvania has resulted very successfully for us, and we can only hope that we may have the same luck with her teams in the future that Yale has had with ours in the past. The unity of spirit which has existed among the students this fall, the same devotion and intelligence which the coaches have shown, and the persistence and pluck which have characterized the players will eventually point...
...that the eleven has once more been defeated, Harvard men must resolutely face the future and ask themselves what can be done. It will do no good to misrepresent facts to ourselves; the eleven was fairly outplayed. It is true that Yale had unquestionable luck in regard to the wind, and it is further true that Harvard had mishaps which seriously affected her chances. How the game would have resulted if these particulars had been different, is a matter of idle speculation; we must recognize the fact that, as matters actually were, Yale won a clean victory...