Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which shows that it can play better football than any other eleven--not one which has a reputation for chivalrously cheering its vanquishers. We would say that the Harvard baseball team which today plays Yale can best demonstrate its sporting spirit by getting more runs than the Elis. We await with confidence such a demonstration...
...have been privileged to encounter the Orange and Black in this new venture. Our acquaintance has been chiefly limited to the field of rival sport; it is with all the more interest then, that we await Princeton's debut on the Boston stage. Harvard extends to the visitors this evening, if not the keys of the cellar, its utmost hospitality and welcome; and it is unanimous in wishing the visitors every success in their exertions at Jordan Hall and later at the Union...
Plans for the trip have finally been completed, according to an announcement made yesterday by Fred W. Moore, graduate treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association, and merely await ratification by the Athletic Committee and the University of Pennsylvania Athletic Committee...
There is probably no single feature which so impresses a neutral spectator at a Harvard-Princeton, Yale-Princeton, or Yale-Harvard game as the traditional snake-dance ceremony, wherein the victors march to the stands where the vanquished await them, for an exchange of cheers. Saturday Princeton cheered Yale and Yale cheered Princeton with a heartiness unexcelled during the game--a striking evidence of the good feeling existing between the two Universities. Visitors from New Haven found quite as warm hospitality at Princeton as they have found at Cambridge in the alternate years, and it is this fact as much...
...affair of the American people alone, but its issue is the concern of all the world. Our interest is perhaps deeper than that of other countries, and the reason for it naturally lies in our common history and in ideals long shared. These together give us the right to await the result with confidence, sure that the deep humanity and sturdy rectitude of judgment which are the heritage of men of English speech will once again prevail. The London Times