Word: luck
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with Yale ideas, as professional trainer. This use of the term "Yale ideas" implies what we have always thought, that a Yale man, with Yale ideas, was suit generous. Yes, it is a rarity in the line of professional trainers, and Yale deserves to be congratulated on her good luck. Don't be selfish, dear friends. If there really is some magic charm in these Yale ideas, do tell us what it is, so that we too may labor to possess it. We have our own idea of what Yale ideas are, but we should really like to hear them...
...first two sets with Yale were very closely contested, that college showing much improvement since last spring. The Harvard men played fairly well, especially Presbrey at the net in the singles. Taylor succeeded in defeating Appleton of Amherst 6, 2, 6, 4; and then had the good luck to draw a bye. Thorne of Yale meanwhile defeated both the strong men of the strong Brown team, who in turn had put out the representatives of Trinity, Amherst and Weslevan Thursday morn and Thorne, which resulted in a victory for Harvard by a score...
...recent communication in the Princetonian. "One can hardly enter a room where there is a collection of fellows without finding grumbling, in one of its many phases, the main basis of conversation. The faculty, poor prospects for foot ball, base ball and the Glee club, and Princeton hard luck, all come in for their share of abuse...
...failed to make as good a showing as any for some years past. But one more championship game is to be played, and even if we are successful in that, we shall have won but three games out of eight. This result is due in part to the bad luck which has disabled from time to time some of our best players. The one point which has lost so many games is the weakness and lack of judgment which almost every man has shown at the bat. Few men can bat with confidence and steadiness unless they have had practice...
...just started, the university used to win about as many events as any other college, but now we only average one first prize a year. Although we derived consolation when the dead heat was pulled with the winners of the tug-of-war last year, from our bad luck in drawing for the trial heats - alone preventing us from winning, as we really had the strongest team...