Word: gained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...small number of spectators attending them. The number of college games need not necessarily be lessened, for practice games can be arranged which would be as interesting as the championship games have been. In games with the smaller colleges we have everything to lose and nothing to gain. A victory over them is immediately forgotten, and the nine receives no credit for it. But if we happen to drop a game to them the nine is condemned in the strongest terms. So it seems to us that Harvard will be taking a wise step if she decides to enter this...
...management of the paper to the hands of worthy successors. That our contemporary has been steadily improving in its quality of literary workmanship throughout the past two years is a fact which has been a matter of open comment from many quarters. May the old lady continue to gain more and more admiration as she grows older. It is certain that her sons from eighty eight will reflect as much credit on the family name as their brothers from preceeding classes have done in the past. But there is one complaint which Dame Advocate makes, and very justly...
...work at all, or at least work much less than before, Now, when they worked harder they must, I think, have learned at least a little more than they do now by working less. It is better, then, that they should learn less than before merely because to gain good marks is not in itself a high object...
After the Hemenway gymnasium had entered on its second year, cleats were introduced for the feet, and the object became, as it is at present, to gain the most rope possible during five minutes. All the four men lay on the rope, raising with a spring, as if to get a new drop, when they heaved. In the out-door pulls, the teams burrowed holes for their feet, pulling furiously, and covered with dust...
...MEDICAL SCHOOL.makes a slow gain in the number of students and its annual income, but is nevertheless doing excellent work. A plan for abridging the four years' course of study in certain cases is now under consideration...