Word: proved
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...prove his fond affection
...meeting will be governed by the same rules as those of previous years. A feature that will prove interesting, though it is not a wholly new one, is the three-legged race, for which there are several pairs entered. Second prizes will be given whenever a race is filled by three or more contestants. The following is the order of events and list of entries...
Cambridge.- The sanitary conditions of the lodging-houses of the Cambridge undergraduates are attended to by an officer who grants licenses to those landlords only who prove that their houses can accommodate the number of students taken. The price-list of rooms must accompany the application for license...
...mention these facts, not from any wish to prove that the "bad air" of our Harvard recitation-rooms is of no account, but rather to show that there are students who can put up with a state of things that to us, fortunately, is intolerable. Happily our "shady side" is not that we live "hermetically sealed...
...wish to call attention to the true state of the club system of boating and to the real causes for that lack of interest which threatens to prove fatal. We believe that the trouble does not lie with the system itself, which was founded, after careful study, by men experienced in college boating and which, by the success of its first year, proved its excellence as a system. During that year good crews were carefully got together and good races rowed, and it was shown that, under these circumstances, enough rivalry existed to render the races amply interesting...