Word: championed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Anabaptists and others, who claimed like himself to have cast aside all authority and to teach from divine inspiration, began to doubt his own position. The agony of his soul's struggle we can but faintly understand. At the end of it he was no longer the champion of reason and religious individualism but their greatest defamer. It was in this spirit that he urged the persecution of the peasants, and disputed with Zivingli at Marburg concerning the Eucharist. There was something naively terrible in the vehemence with which he devoted himself to contending with his old followers...
...students, one based on the past, the other on the future; but only in the former was any binding action taken. Harvard has decided to withdraw unconditionally from the football league, and this is as it should be. By so doing she has put herself on record as the champion of purity in intercollegiate athletics. Whatever may be the result of her action, she has assumed of her own accord an independent position which cannot successfully be challenged...
Donnelly, Princeton's end rush, is champion middle weight boxer of Chicago...
...International Lawn Tennis Tournament, for the championship of the world, has been arranged between George Kerr, the Irish Champion, and Thomas Pettit of Boston, to be played in Boston this summer...
...Varsity crew expected to have a race with the champion Bradford crew last Saturday, but as J. R. Cummings, the Bradford stroke, was not able to row, the race was postponed to some day this week. The 'Varsity crew however, rowed a mile in good time, and showed that they have improved a great deal during the past few weeks...