Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale has won during the year 1885 the inter-collegiate tennis championship alone. The "triple crown" has been divided between Harvard and Princeton...
...successful sophomore crew, provided only the men who tried then will have the courage to come forward now. By this early beginning of work it looks as though it was '88's ambition to follow in the wake of the illustrious sophomore crew which preceded her, and crown the record of their second year in college with a well earned victory over seniors, juniors and freshmen...
...contest of importance. We understand that the men are somewhat disheartened by the result of the Southboro game. While this is not at all surprising, we must warn the freshmen that, by going into a game with a feeling that defeat is certain, nothing else than that will ever crown their efforts. By taking a brace to-morrow at the start, - not putting it off till the score is too large large against them to be overcome, and by playing with a firm determination to win, we have every reason to expect that the score of Saturday will be reversed...
Other books in this collection may be mentioned: Documentos Ineditos para la Historia de Espana, 67 volumes; History of the 'Crown of Aragon, 40 volumes; Teatrum Urbium Italiae, 6 volumes containing valuable maps...
Study the mother. Remember well what passes. Be a man of as much ease as possible. Thursday. Return to Glasgow. See High Church. and particularly the paintings, and put half a crown into the box at the door. Friday. Come back in the fly. N. B. You are to keep and exact account of your charges." The energy with which these short sentences succeed one another show how much Boswell was moved. And yet, he did not quite lose his head. "Study the mother," he says impressively, and "Keep an exact account of your charges...