Word: champion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rifles can compete; spring and fall matches for teams representing the different buildings as they are divided into boat-clubs; and an annual match for the championship of the club. It is hoped that the graduates interested in rifle-shooting will offer a cup to be awarded to the champion, which he may hold for a year at least; and the club proposes to give in addition a badge which will become the property of the winner of the match. In the various other contests there will be two prizes offered, - a first prize of the value of five dollars...
...length he was the champion speller...
...furtherance of the plan of not overworking a 'Varsity oar, the 1st Division (answering to the "Champion Sixes") of the Cambridge boats do not take part in the Lent term races that precede the 'Varsity by a few weeks, but only in the May races that follow it, since, some of their members being wanted for the 'Varsity, it would be impolitic to make them row, and unjust to force the clubs to which they belong to race without their best oars...
This Miss Gray was one of those soft, kitten like girls who have address enough for a whole court of diplomacy, but whom you never see without wishing to shield them from the heartlessness of a scheming world. They had been playmates from childhood. Tom had been her chosen champion against the attacks of "that horrid Symperson boy," in return for which she allowed him to draw her home on his sled; she had listened admiringly when Tom had related what he would do "when he was in college"; together they had wept over the woes of the unfortunate Laurie...
...accept as dogma. On the one hand, science, made confident by its recent achievements, assails the very foundations of the Christian religion, rejecting with scorn testimony and proof which require standards of judgment other than those of the exact sciences; while, on the other, literature, or rather the champion of the "literary theory of culture," refuses to accept a religion which cannot be justified by man's own powers of reasoning. Just as the word "culture" in its present sense is of very recent origin, so the movement, or whatever else we may choose to call the influence exercised...