Word: loom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...debating season is now fairly under way, and intercollegiate contests are beginning to loom up in the future, it seems to be a fitting time to consider the prospects for the year. It is of the utmost importance that the University shall assert once more its former superiority in debating. There are two defeats to be wiped out, and, in order to do it, and do it decisively, some very hard work will be required...
...Cornell, wonderfully rapid as have been the development of football and track athletics, boating continues to loom up pre-eminently as the representative sport. The Cornell navy came into existence in 1871, when there were only about 400 men in the university against its present 1400. The next year a crew was sent to Spring field and met defeat. Although creeping up in place, defeat fodowed for two years, until 1873, when a turning point was reached. In that year Cornell's freshmen defeated Harvard, Brown and Princeton, and the 'varsity won its first great race against twelve competitors. Both...