Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...State has made, a corresponding change in the spring recess here is worth considering. The recess has always been so dated as to include Fast Day; if it should be changed so as to include Patriots' Day, it would fall about two weeks later, and this would give some likelihood of a coincidence with pleasant weather. There is hardly a week in the year which is more likely to be stormy than the first in April, and gentlemen long connected with the University say that the plans of vacation after vacation have been upset by this circumstance...
...future can feel that at a time when prospects were the darkest, no despondence and no slacking in determination were indulged, it will be a spur that will go far towards securing success. The more times that Harvard acquits herself well in hard places, the more likelihood is there that she will be able to do so again. An athletic spirit, transmitted from class to class, is a very real force...
...added, and also to take care of the trophies, if that seems the most feasible plan. Herbert H. White, manager of athletics, is ready to pay any necessary bill that may be incurred in obtaining the missing pictures. He makes a proviso, however, that there must be some likelihood that the precedent of having all records and trophies placed in the room shall be maintained in the future...
...inconsistent with the unsectarian character and policy of the University must be prejudical, and while they cannot think that the method proposed by the Corporation is one which really carries out the purpose of the founder of the lectures, they see no utility in pressing views which have no likelihood of obtaining the interest and concurrence of the Corporation...
...that the dates as arranged came far too early in the season. At that time Harvard's season is only just begun; and important contests with Princeton could not be a correct test of the final strength of the two nines. Although games with Princeton would in all likelihood strengthen our nine, we have to be careful, in arranging them, that Harvard play under fairly favorable circumstances. The dates and conditions as arranged put Harvard at a decidedly disadvantage in regard both to the outcome with Princeton and the result of the first game with Yale, coming...