Word: excellent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...effort, to perfect the deficiencies of their team by constant training and practice. They are said to spend habitually from two to three hours each day at labor with the leather, and, although they fail to meet the average weight of our eleven, they are taking every precaution to excel on those points in which ours display a weakness. From the present standing of the two rival elevens, neither can boast of superiority, and, for the sake of prediction, we proclaim the laurels of victory to fall eventually to the eleven which, from now to November 15, shows by hard...
...June, 1880, he was admitted to Harvard with honors; and when, a few months later, he appeared on Jarvis Field as a candidate for the freshman nine, few men imagined that the small, unassuming young man they saw there was destined to excel in every department of the university he entered. But such indeed was true. As a scholar, he was among the first in his class; and, although he apparently devoted but little time to study, yet he had that faculty of application and versatility of intellect which enabled him to grasp any subject, whether history, philosophy, mathematics...
...those who have ever tried canoeing, there is no need to tell its advantages over other sports. To enjoy it, it is not necessary for one to go through a course of training, nor to strain himself to excel everyone else. It is free from all suspicion of "professionalism." The canoeist engages in his sport for the pure fun of the thing, and can get along without the glory and black eyes and broken shins on base-ball and football. Canxing contains all the pleasures of yachting, and in addition many others of which the yachtsman knows nothing. To quote...
...Hawaiians excel in mathematics, but are hardly up to the average American intellect in other branches. They are particularly slow in acquiring foreign tongues, the English language, for instance, being almost too difficult for them. A little more than a hundred years ago, when these islands were discovered by Captain Cook, the inhabitants were sunk in degradation and superstition. A wonderful change has come over them since then, and may we not say that it is due to the influence of education...
...trustworthy correspondent from Princeton says that the Mott Haven team from that college will excel in general strength at the coming meet. A very large number of sure second men are reported, and, as our authority remarks, second places are very likely to count this year...