Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletic record of the year. Mr. Depew said, read like the triumphal announcements of the heralds at the Olympian games. "With bat and ball and oar, on land on water, the blue has been uniformly triumphant, and Yale reigns supreme," he said. "Columbia cheers and strives to imitate, Princeton applauds and despairs, and Harvard goes back to Cambridge and kicks, but her misfortune is that she does not kick hard enough at the right time. The athletic triumphs of Yale are celebrated by the increasing numbers of the freshman class, for the students at the preparatory schools know what constitute...
...junior polo club of Boston University is to contest in a series of games at the Olympian, with the English high and the Boston Latin schools. The prize will be a polo ball and a silver plated polo stick...
...Olympian Rink of Boston offers prizes of many hundreds of dollars to be awarded in the near future to the best drum corps out of the many it expects to contest. It is suggested that the H. D. C. be resusitcated and compete for the prize. As the award is to be made not only for musical skill, but also for skill in evolution, and as the old H. D. C. performed the most marvellous evolutions ever seen in the great parade, there will be little doubt that the prize and hundreds of shining ducats will come out to Harvard...
...well, that's rather contradicted by the next, 'Extras,' $25. If I had stuck to the regular feed I couldn't have eaten all those extras, so it seems to me they ought to wipe off either the "board" or the "extra" items. And here, may it please the Olympian Tens, is the last one of all,-the last straw, too. 'Gymnasium Locker,' $2. Now considering the fact that I lost about $30 worth of clothes out of that very locker, owing to the neglect of the athletic committee to "turn the rascals out" who have been indulging in amusing...
...Governor Stanford, of California has given $500 to the library of the American school at Athens. A rumor, seemingly well founded, was current at Athens, that Mr. Standford had offered the Greek government $50,000 for one to the columns of the temple of Olympian Zeus. It is needless to say that the offer was not accepted...