Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...riddle of a Harvard-Yale football game is one which the wiseacres of the football coterie have never been able to solve. If they cannot explain results that have been, surely they cannot predict what results will be. "The odds are on Harvard," say some with a finality that spells a Crimson victory. But who ever heard of odds on Yale, reasonable or unreasonable? "Harvard has a better record," say others, forgetting that games are not won on records. Harvard tried the record policy in 1910 and Yale in 1911, and neither won. "Yale has the old Yale spirit...
Shake-ups in the make-up of the eleven have been so frequent that it is impossible to predict a single position on the team for the final games. Since Marquard is strong at centre, Ketcham has gone to guard, but the situation at the wings is so unpromising that he may be shifted there. Tomorrow will probably show the most promising candidates for the wing positions...
...sangerfest of batting editors. Aside from the tremendous mental and physical gap separating editors from the lowly candidates, any extra base hits will be counted heavily against the latter, and scoop credit will be given them for all errors. Thus we feel that without undue modesty we can safely predict a victory for ourselves...
...reputation, culture, and experience and before persons who are, most of them, perhaps destined to come into contact, as missionaries, with the much wronged Asiaties. If the Christian missionary activity requires things as these to kindle their well-nigh expiring zeal for their cause, it is safe to predict that a terrible disillusion is soon at hand for them...
Judging from the large number of men who specialize in the department of Political Economy, it is safe to predict that the formation of an Undergraduate Economics Society will meet the approval and support of a great many undergraduates. It is one of the pleasing signs of the times that the movement for the formation of this society has come from the undergraduates themselves and represents their interest in matters intellectual. It is a sign, too, that the student does not stand aloof, a privileged and disinterested member of society, but shows he is vitally interested in the problems...