Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dejonge '14, of Stapleton, Staten Island, N. Y., died at his home on Wednesday morning. For several days during the mid-year period he was in the Stillman Infirmary, but he recovered sufficiently to return to his home. There he contracted a severe cold which developing into pneumonia proved fatal...
...those who witnessed the birth and death of the first Student Council, the superiority of the new organization is apparent. Nevertheless the new body although more representative than the old, will suffer from the same fatal defect. The scholar, the athlete, and the litterateur are all members of the new Council; but where, in the parlance of the newspapers, do the "common people" come in? Here is X, an able fellow, who is considered too much an ass to make the CRIMSON; and there is Y, too light for an "H," too prosaic for the Monthly, and too meagre...
...Committee then took up the statement that the game as played last autumn was more dangerous than ever before. A complete tabulation of deaths and injuries for 1909 made by Alexander Moffat of Princeton showed two fatal accidents to players on college teams and showed the kind of plays in which injuries are likely to occur. Incomplete data for previous years, however, prevented any comparisons being made. It was generally concluded that there was too much chance of injury in the game as played last fall and the Committee devoted the rest of its time to tabulating the sources...