Word: outdoing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Thus there is every reason for Harvard men to feel confident in the ability of their nine to win. Recent achievements have borne witness to its ball-playing powers, and today the men are expected to outdo themselves...
...freshmen won additional glory this afternoon by their defeat of the sophomores in the inter-class contest for the baseball championship. Both classes vied in their endeavors to outdo the noisy demonstrations made by '95 and '96 in their game last week. Brass bands, drum corps complete even to the drum-majors, and cannon fire-crackers, sirens, horns, whistles and even shot guns were brought into requisition to create noise and express class feeling. The sophomores had the better organization, but were unable to "fuss" the freshmen who beat them by a big score. Next week will decide the class...
...games at Yale, intense interest will centre about her meeting with Harvard. Event after event promises to be hard fought and exciting; if Harvard wins she will have just cause for pride. We believe that out of the list of entries on another page, men will be found to outdo the best athletes whom Yale can bring against them; and we are glad that so interesting and important a contest is to be settled where all Harvard...
Toynbee Hall, in London, conducted by Cambridge and Oxford students and intended to help the poor of the Whitechapel district is undoubtedly the model of this new college settlement in New York, which is already on the way to outdo its original in honest usefulness...
...Classical club intends to assist in the raising of money for the Delphi appropriation fund by the appointment of a committee to canvas the college for subscriptions. Dr. M. H. Morgan is chairman of the committee which hopes to outdo the recent subscription of $500 from Princeton and of $300 from Cornell...