Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...evil. It is well known throughout the college that the two deaths of last year were the result of reckless overwork; and it is difficult to reconcile with this fact the statement in the President's last Report, which reads, "In no one of the cases could the fatal disease be attributed to any exposure or overexertion incident to student life or to residence in Cambridge...
...Four deaths occurred in 1877-78 among the students resident in Cambridge, - three in the College and one in the Scientific School. Two died of brain disease, one of pneumonia, and one of anaemia. In no one of the cases could the fatal disease be attributed to any exposure or over-exertion incident to student life or to residence in Cambridge. The general healthiness of the University dormitories is remarkable. There has been no epidemic therein of fever, diphtheria, dysentery, or any zymotic disease for many years, and malaria (except in imported cases) is unknown...
...prize essay, "Aspasia: the Study of a Portrait." The judges were Yale professors, and we cannot help thinking how different would have been the fate of the essay had it fallen into the clutches of our Bowdoin Prize Committee. Its substance is excellent, but its style would have been fatal to it here...
...sweet strains of music, in order that he might begin the day in harmony with everything. Perhaps the Faculty think that it answers the purpose equally well to wake us up with a harsh bell, and give us the music half an hour afterwards; but the delay is fatal. By the time the music comes we are not in a fitting frame of mind to appreciate...
...urged that it would be fatal to do away with distinction and rank; but the proposed system would not do away with it. Special examinations for honors could be held, as at present, and they would become the only, as they are the best, way of conferring distinction...