Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...encouraged to take exercise, and to enter into the general practice of athletic sports and games. If, however, the object of physical training be lost sight of, and the desire to win the championship, or to attain the highest degree of excellence in these sports be made the paramount aim, then the practice of athletics is likely to be attended with evils that demand consideration. Some of these evils have already begun to make themselves manifest in the practice of college sports. With a view to correcting them and of making athletic exercises an aid instead of a hindrance...
...course everyone, players and spectators, felt the wish that our laurels had been harder to win, and the paramount question was, How would it have been if the teams were evenly matched? While such speculation is useless, yet we have reason to congratulate our team on playing so good a game, even under these circumstances. New York brought on the best men in her team - in fact, she borrowed one of the famous Shamrocks of Canada. That Harvard could, without losing a goal, sustain the attack of these wily old "Canucks" is no mean proof of her ability to meet...
...organized and victorious crew owes its success invariably to the energy, push, alertness, self-sacrifice and denial of its captain. Let the captain of our crew display more of these traits and we will prophesy renewed enthusiasm among its members, a hearty support by the class, and finally and paramount in importance, a successful and victorious race on the Harlem, July...