Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Today's races on the basin will be the most important of the preliminary athletic events of the spring. They will show the practical results of the busy term of preparatory training which has just come to an end, and will serve as the crucial test of fitness for the 'Varsity boat...
...much promising material. If they are to continue to be thus useful they must receive just as enthusiastic support this year. In fact it is now of still greater importance, for with the advent of 'Varsity material to the class boats, the Weld standard should be raised. The first crucial point in this season's rowing came when the candidates were first called out and there was a feeling that it would be useless to try against 'Varsity men. Fortunately this cut no figure and the response was a general one. The second is now before us. If the Weld...
...second place, this year happens to be a very crucial one in the matter. Last year policemen were put on duty in the yard to quell disturbance. Their presence was held by many to have helped, not to quell, but to excite disturbance. This year the officers of the University have decided to trust to the students implicitly. Not a policeman will be in the Yard; even the regular watchman has been told not to interfere. The University officers have practically said that, if students can control themselves, they shall have the opportunity of showing it. How that opportunity...
...feeling be allowed to become overconfidence. If our men have a feeling that last Saturday's game has any reason in it for letting up on the hard, persistent, determined work it will prove the fatal mistake of the year. Always about this season the team passes a crucial point where it seems either to get its second wind or to lose its wind for good. This year the students feel that this crucial point has been or will be passed in safety and from this time there must be unity of spirit in students and players. Saturday's game...
...departing eleven. Moments like those take strong hold in our memories; we shall think of them afterwards as among the most in spiring incidents in our college course. Their meaning is deep; the labor of months of preparation has come to the point where it must stand the crucial test of the great struggle for supremacy over a strong but friendly rival...