Word: champion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opposite sexes, which the representatives of the young ladies institute finally win by a clever ruse - tempting the gallantry of their opponents. If the present progress in athletic training continues, who can tell how soon Dr. Holmes' imaginary race may become a reality in a contest between the champion eights of Wellesley and Harvard? But the students at Wellesley do not give all their enthusiasm to boating. Near the lake is a large and level field devoted to tennis, where the young women compete in agility and skill. The first tournament took place last fall and developed some excellent players...
Since the announcement in yesterday's paper that the H. U. B. B. C. will give cups to the champion "amateur" nine, already a number of nines have been organized, and the contest promises to be as interesting as that of last year when the CRIMSON offered cups...
Princeton is said to have fifty-one candidates in training. Adams, '88, who has thrown the hammer 90 feet in practice, and Toler, '86, the inter-collegiate champion in the pole vault are the most prominent...
...article starts off with the statement that the most enthusiastic Yale man can only figure out second place for his college, and adds, "It seems that though the men who might take a first prize had concluded to let somebody else have a chance. Brooks, '86, the champion college sprinter, positively declines to enter this year. Hamilton, '86, the easy winner of the bicycle race at last year's games, also holds himself severely aloof from the track, and now says nothing can induce him to enter. Meredith and Mitchell, the Scientific School experts at the mile walk and half...
...able man as he is, was unable to follow what he calls the "path of principle," when brought face to face with it two years ago. An earnest opponent of Mr. Blaine, he went to Chicago avowedly to oppose that gentleman's methods and personality, and as the champion of reform and pure government. When he was defeated, he turned to the right about, and supported zealously the very man he had been describing the day before as unprincipled and corrupt. I am sorry that Mr. Lodge could have given us no other advice than that the doctrine of expediency...