Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lord Cavendish and of Burke in Dublin Saturday. The deed meets with expressions of universal horror and condemnation throughout this country, and is considered the worst blow to the fortunes of Ireland that could have been given. The Land League has published a manifesto deploring the occurrence as fatal to Ireland's hopes. Four men have been arrested on suspicion...
...forenoon, the junior crew made the attempt to go over the course on time. They started a few minutes after eleven, and despite the fact that each wave washed considerable water into the boat, they pushed on. As it afterward proved, the neglect to put on the washboards proved fatal. When nearly 150 yards from the Union boat-house, the forward part of the boat was so full of water that something had to be done to relieve the heavy strain. Perceiving, with the true instinct of heroes, the imminent danger to the boat and their companions, Messrs. Keith...
...that the college is cramped for funds, and that expenses must be cut down, so that no man can feel sure of his reappointment with even his present paltry salary. Now this cutting down expenses by letting our most valuable instructors go from our best conducted departments is a fatal policy. It is rumored that the corporation have thought seriously of cutting down our Greek department, too. This department should be one of the last to be cut down. The fact is, that the corporation have been appointing a number of new professors when it seems that they could...
...escape. The danger is immediate and continual, and the action of the authorities at Princeton in providing fire-escapes is an example we could well wish to see imitated here. At Princeton there was once an outbreak of malarial fever among the students that was distressingly fatal, and it was followed by an entire reorganization of the drainage both at that college and at Harvard. Perhaps, after some disastrous conflagration, involving the sacrifice of valuable lives, our college authorities may be induced to provide us fire-escapes. We commiserate these possible future victims and martyrs to culpable negligence...
...fatal duel took place yesterday between two jealous women near Wilmington...