Word: suffered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have remarked before are often diffident about coming out, fearing that they will be of no use in athletics. This should not be; the old men should begin training at once and new men should not hesitate to join the squads. The Mott Haven team will suffer this year unless all the good men train for aa old members whose success in athletics has lain largely in the track games should join the squads rather than train for other athletic teams when their success is not so assured. The success of the Mott Haven team lies partly in the number...
...days, Harvard has one of the strongest elevens in its history. This does not necessarily mean that victory is certain; it does mean, however, that our chances are good; that our eleven will play as it has never played before. It will either win a glorious victory, or suffer honorable defeat...
...Peace is more likely to be maintained if prepared for war. - (3). The navies of other countries of great commercial importance are much larger. Statesman's Year Book, 1892, pp. 59, 488, 549, 1079. - (4) It is more economical to support a navy for years than to suffer loss resulting from the destruction of our commerce in a few weeks: Forum vol. 9, p. 326. - (5) The navy cannot be increased from our mercantile marine as formerly...
...fine points of the playing. Almost any game would seem dull to those who could not appreciate what the players were striving for; and many a game which in its crudeness is rather slow, becomes remarkably interesting when the more subtle plays are understood. Cricket at Harvard seems to suffer from this very ignorance among the students of the real skill of the game. By providing for a large number of games in Cambridge, the Cricket Club means to give the college better opportunities of understanding and appreciating the game...
...change is harmful. - (a) It would lower the dignity of - (1) The cabinet, because traditional hostility of cabinet and Congress would cause personal attacks, badgering, etc.: Morrill, 422; Cox, 442-3. - (2) Of President, for criticism would indirectly injure him.- (b) Business of departments would suffer from absence of heads; Morrill, 424. - (c) It would force President to appoint cabinet officers for parliamentary ability rather than for executive power; Nation, XXVIII, 243. - (d) It would increase party dissensions: Cox, 438; Hare, Const. Law, I, 178. - (e) Serious complications would arise when executive and legislative were of different parties...