Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reason why this year they should prove any exception to the rule. The senior class nine is a good one, and always has been a good one, and it behooves the members of the other nines to get together as quickly as possible for practice, if they wish to outdo Eighty-eight in the contest for the class championship. The freshmen especially are advised to work hard and faithfully, for they have to meet the Yale freshmen in a contest which is not mere play by any means. If they wish even to approach the record made by Eighty-nine...
...must be said that the tendency for "rushing" such as it exists at other colleges is gaining ground here, and that there are better ways of spending an evening than parading about the college yard in phalanxes and testing their lungs to the utmost to see which party can outdo the other in bravado. Besides, the yard is no place for rushes, Jarvis Field is reserved for that intellectual occupation. As soon as the undergraduates bring themselves to the point when they can go to a freshman meeting without spoiling for the excitement of a "rush...
...Browns played the best game of the year, for them. The following is the Globe's opinion of Monday's game: - The game was close but not exciting, on account of the most inexcusable errors, poorest coaching and worst base running of the year. Each side tried to outdo the other's poor plays...
...senior photographic committee, which is published in our columns this morning. There has always been a strange indolence in regard to this matter of picture-taking exhibited by the members of every class, but if we may judge from reports the class of '85 seems determined to outdo its predecessors in some respects at least, and has taken this method of doing it. As, by the contract with the photographer, all the sittings must be finished before the first of March, very little time is left for the completion of this work. Moreover, this time, short as it is, will...
...machine was wound up and properly adjusted it could, at the precise moment agreed upon, ring a bell, wind up a spool, drop a weight, rattle a chair, slam shut the stove door and open the draft, all in a jiffy and without extra charge. P - has resolved to outdo this arrangement, and is now engaged on a machine to go by electricity, to be connected with a thermometer and regulate the temperature of the room, so that the room would take care of itself and his mind be left free for higher matters...