Word: nauseum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...always limited. As a rule they play but three years at most. When they are gone, one newspaper after another takes up the cry - "The Harvard team is greatly weakened by the loss of A": "Without X Harvard has no chance at the championship": and so on ad nauseum. And often too, there is some truth in these statements. For, relying on the powers of a few men, we have made no attempt to bring out the skill which may exist in other quarters. Hence, we have substantially to start afresh whenever a team loses several of its strongest...