Word: accidental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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L. P. Howland, L. S., while playing baseball in the cage Saturday afternoon sprained his ankle. The accident will probably disable him for two weeks.
A very sad accident happened at New Haven on Monday, in which Fletcher Ritzinger, a sophomore in the Sheffield Scientific school lost his life and W. E. Walker, a classmate narrowly escaped serious injury. After recitation Ritzinger and Walker went driving and on their return passed through Fair Haven. While...
Again, the writer is very much at fault in his conclusions about the statistics used by the CRIMSON. He cannot understand why the recent gains of Yale over Harvard with respect to western men should be called accidental. Taking the Advocate's figures between 1878 and 1886, you will find that the number of men at Harvard from the west rose from 191 to 348-a gain of 157, while the number of such men at Yale increased from 288 to 410-a gain of 122. Perhaps the writer is not aware that Yale has made its extraordinary growth during...
There is one passage, however, which stands by itself in versatility of misapprehension, if you will excuse the phrase. It is this: "What good will it do us to pick out of a hundred years the three in which accident gave Yale a greater proportional increase than Harvard, and argue...
Thirdly, will the CRIMSON explain why a gain made by Yale is necessarily due to "accident?" What accident? What, by comparison, is the immutable law upon which the growth of Harvard rests? Is not this the attitude of the traditional ostrich, which buries its head in the sand when it...