Word: naught
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first start should be marred by any evident misunderstanding (wherever responsibility for the misunderstanding might ultimately be found to rest), or if an oarlock should break during the first few strokes. Without some such agreement all the hard work and faithful training of many months may be brought to naught, and what ought to be a memorable contest end in an ignominious fiasco...
Captain Follansbee-Hayes, Hayes, Kidner, Morrison, Harbeck, Bowen, Rainbolt, Forbes, Naught, Clough, Howes...
...phrases. But I trust that no catch-words or nicknames will deter Harvard students who have once made up their minds adversely on the general question, from beginning the fight just at this very point, and doing what little they can towards bringing the threatened increase of armament to naught...