Word: stake
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first promised. When there are only two or three freshmen on the 'Varsity squad and it is to a man's advantage in every way to come out and try for his class team, and, what is more important still, when the athletic reputation of the class is at stake, there is absolutely no reason why every Freshman who is physically able to play football should not be on Soldiers Field every afternoon. That the squad is not as large as it could and ought to be is quite evident. Furthermore it is foolish to suppose that the incoming class...
...again Harvard is to go to Philadelphia to play Pennsylvania and with the college reputation at stake in two weeks time, but next Saturday only one week before this important game, the Boston Athletic Association is to be played, and it is well known what sort of a game they usually give. Probably more men will be disabled and then not time enough is left to recuperate. I am not supposing that perfection can be attained without practice and practice games, nor asking that Harvard be spared, but I believe the team gets too much hammering just before the important...
...word is not misplaced. There is more depending on the result of our next celebration, whatever it be, than is clear at first sight, and it is our duty to be perfectly frank in discussing it. First and foremost the continuance of our intercollegiate contests is at stake, and this alone makes it a matter of the utmost consequence to every student in the University. It is the merest folly to say that the Faculty could not abolish our intercollegiate games, or that they would not take so extreme an action. We might as well put our minds at rest...
...general, the Harvard speakers maintained than the United States can not avoid embroilment in foreign troubles, and that war, therefore, is always a possibility. To protect the seaboard cities from destruction, and to prevent a blockade, a powerful navy is necessary. The greatness of the interests at stake justifies almost any expense...
...subject.- (b) Too great an element of chance involved.- (x) "Good luck" often a factor.- (y) External conditions unduly influential.- (1) Occasional indisposition of student. (2) Frequent excessive heat of final period.- (c) Men often fail to show their real knowledge.- (x) Owing to nervousness caused by issue at stake on one examination.- (3) Evil results upon students.- (a) Mental and physical strain.- (b) Moral relaxation.- (c) Encourages practice of "cramming."- (x) A knowledge sufficient to pass the examination quickly acquired and as quickly forgotten.- (2) Involves a great waste of time.- (b) Term virtually suspended for four weeks...