Word: predict
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletics is abolished. We do not think that these rules can be made effective without further and more minute restrictions being adopted by the faculty. What would be the ultimate effect upon athletics of such a policy consistently followed out it is easier to conjecture than accurately to predict. Certainly a system of espionage does not strike the average Harvard man as likely to help on the cause of athletic sports in the colleges...
...distant day. Whether as yet any decisive showing of strength by either the more conservative or the more decal side has yet been made we are uninformed. That the question will soon be considered is tolerably evident. What will be the final issue it would be hazardous to predict...
...ball game between the Yale and Harvard freshmen this afternoon promises to be one of the most interesting events of the season. Although we have often been taught not "to count our chickens before they are hatched," we predict the success of the home nine with no small degree of confidence. The freshman faculty, we understand, are to lend eclat to the occasion by their presence; and what strength should not this circumstance alone inspire! As an appropriate climax to so famous a victory, the freshmen will make a triumphant entry into the city. The line of march will...
...boats by the tug whistle and pistol shot was eminently successful, and should be adopted as the permanent regulation for starting. The graduation of '83 will leave for next year three very evenly matched crews, and provided '85 and '86 improve in the way they are capable of, we predict another close and exciting race...
Today our nine plays its first game for the college championship. We wish that we could predict success with certainty, but for us to make such a prediction, under present circumstances, would be very hazardous. We can predict with confidence, however, that whatever may be the result of the game, the Harvard nine will do its utmost to gain the victory. The game today will probably be the hardest we shall have to play this year and defeat can be no disgrace. Victory will be creditable in the highest degree. The nine carries with it to Providence our earnest wishes...