Word: champion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Justin McCarthy, the great Irish champion for Home Rule in Ireland, will address the students of Cornell next Saturday evening. The subject of his address is "The Cause of Ireland...
...strong competition for the various papers and literary magazines is making itself apparent. The "Banner" for 1886-7 will be ready for sale this week, and will undoubtedly be the most attractive one ever published. One feature of the issue is the cuts of three athletic teams, the champion crew and nine and the foot-ball team of last fall. Its statistics are more complete and accurate than usual, and the body of the book contains about thirty pages more than last year. Next Monday the semi-annual examinations commence, lasting until the Wednesday before Christmas, when our vacation...
...communication published this morning in regard to the plan of work now in vogue in History 13, shows a new side of this already much discussed subject. Heretofore we have heard of nothing but complaints. but now a champion comes to defend. Whoever is dissatisfied with what he is doing in History 13, and desires a new plan adopted had better read our correspondent's letter and make his decision once more. The work in History 13, no doubt, looks appalling to a man who has never seen anything like it before, but a little practice will enable...
...again reported that Samuel Winslow. captain of the Harvard champion base-ball team of '85 will return to the Law School this winter...
...Yale men expressed themselves as satisfied with the decision of the convention on the ground that it practically declares Yale champion for 1886. The Princeton delegates were less contented with the decision and would have preferred an absolute one in favor of Yale or Princeton. They would have been perfectly willing to agree to it if it had unreservedly awarded the championship to Yale. A number of witnesses were examined in the course of the convention and the following gentlemen acted as arbitrators: Messrs. Appleton and Brooks of Harvard, Stevens of Wesleyan, Posey and Young of the University of Pennsylvania...