Word: luck
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which our team had undergone since the beginning of the year would bring them out ahead. According to the reports received the team played collectively one of the poorest games this fall, but there can be but little doubt that they were clearly out matched. The best of good luck could not possibly have changed the final result of the game. The Princeton rush line was superior to ours, and the backs could not get a fair chance to do any brilliant playing...
...practice this week, but will probably be able to resume play in a few days. It would seem that the team considered individually could scarcely be improved upon, but there is notice-able a decided lack of team work which may prove fatal. Princeton has experienced her usual hard luck in the injuries to her players, and it is to be hoped that some of the injured men will recover shortly...
...when they saw the list of entries headed by a few of the most formidable players in college. The mere winning of a prize is not the primary object for which the tournament was originated, but rather that all who enjoyed tennis might go in, try their luck, and have some sport. This spirit of dreading to pit oneself against a better player for fear of being beaten is entirely out of place here. However, those who have entered seem determined to struggle hard for the championship, and as the courts are now in prime condition and the weather promises...
...great misfortune to the nine. We hope that after a few days rest he may be able to play again. But if he is prevented from playing in the Yale game we strongly urge the nine not to let this misfortune, occuring at so critical a time, discourage them. Luck seems against us; if we can win in the face of ill-fortune, the credit of victory will be the greater...
...vocation chosen by a young man is governed oftener by accident than inclination. But the manner in which it is pursued is controlled neither by luck nor chance. The liberal professions are crowded with incompetents. I know ministers who should be palace car conductors, poor lawyers who would have been good drummers or clerks, and medical men who are more dangerous to their patients than the diseases they treat, who were destined by nature for the farm or the factory. The world is a workshop full of misfits, and misfits are always cheap. It requires both faculty and courage, when...