Word: fight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sears, the tennis champion, has decided to retire from the field, and the fight for the championship next year will be more exciting than usual...
...discovery that a history of the United States, from which all mention of the rebellion is omitted, is in use in the public schools of Omaha, has led to a sharp fight in the board of education...
...hard and bitter experience he must first go through, even if he possesses only the average amount of sensitiveness. I think the orator of the senior class dinner uttered a real truth when he spoke of the increase of class feeling in the senior year. But to have to fight up to that year, through the snobbishness and condescendingness of men with whom he may be thrown in his work, is a pretty hard experience...
...Beecher did not give utterance to the words quoted, nor was the sentiment which he wishes to convey, and which he did convey to those present, such as our contemporary would have its readers believe. Captain Beecher did not train his team "to fight the referee," nor did any one who heard what he said take it that way. The idea which he did give was that he had trained his team to win in spite of all obstacles, even if the referee were one of them. If the Harvard papers have reached that state where they wish to stake...
...senior class elections for class day were held, and, contrary to expectation, passed off without any split in the class. '88 has since its entrance been noted for the harmony in the class and the freedom from cliques, but it was feared that there would be a bitter fight over some of the offices. The best men were elected though in almost every instance, and there was none of that bitter fight which so disgraced...