Word: outwitted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...coming generation that we must look for help. It is to aid in this cause that we are getting an education. College training is not for making men better able to make money than their fellows, or to teach them to be sharp enough to outwit those less fortunate than themselves, but it is to make men broader, nobler and stronger, morally and intellectually, so that when they go out in the world they may have something to sacrifice to the good of the country...
...first lap caused some doubt as to the final result. The men who started were Endicott, Bardeen and C. W. Norton for Harvard, Wight, F. S. Bunnell, S. H. Bunnell and Hoyt for Yale. The race on Yale's part at least, showed clever planning but not enough to outwit the Harvard men. When the pistol was fired, S. H. Bunnell started off at a tremendous rate and at the end of two laps had a lead of about twenty yards. Here he began to weaken and Endicott and Wight who had been keeping close together gradually drew...