Word: driven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conviction that Amherst is our true rival for the honors of the diamond this year was thoroughly driven home by the result of her game with Harvard last Monday. That she defeated the Cambridge men by a score of eight to one, a nine against whom we scored but three runs, and those by an unusually successful massing of base hits, is a very significant fact. - [Courant...
...says the Cambridge correspondent of the Athlete, "has been that there have been too few candidates to pick from. Although these have been good players, there has not been nearly so much personal interest in the nine as there otherwise would have been, and the men have not been driven by competition to do their best at all times...
...harmed by receiving more, instead of to Yale, which is to be preserved by being kept poor. The question of the co-education of the sexes is attracting a good deal of attention just now. Old Columbia has been shaken to her foundations, and Dr. Dix has been almost driven from the island for opposing the higher education of women. I want to place it on record now and here that the Yale Alumni have no objection to the co-education of the sexes, and if there are any women who wish to join us the treasurer will gladly take...
Very little has been left us concerning John Harvard's life in this country, still less is known of it in the mother-land, and we are driven to the scanty records of what he did that we may glean a few points, at least, in regard to his character. The only facts known about him are that he was a member of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; that in 1635 he received his degree; that afterwards, in 1637, he obtained the higher one of A. M. In the latter part of this year he set sail for this country and became...
...present system of compulsory chapel attendance in vogue at this college, to think that the students at other colleges in general are worse situated in this respect than we ourselves are. It is but a melancholy satisfaction at best to contemplate the case of the Williams student, regularly driven to two chapel services a day - morning and evening - or of those others who have to hurry, winter and summer, at 7 o'clock or earlier every morning to the cold precincts of the college chapel. Nevertheless these comparisons are interesting as affording a view of what in a certain sense...