Word: proved
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...regret to learn that in the last inning of the Live Oak game Mr. Ernst stretched the short head of the biceps muscle in his right leg, and trust that the injury may not prove more than a temporary lameness...
...appearance of the Elective Pamphlet has been awaited with unusual curiosity on account not only of the new graduate courses, but also of many rumored changes in the College electives. These changes prove to be less numerous than was expected, and are mainly in the Department of History. Dr. Emerton has a new elective, which covers an interesting period, and ought to prove valuable; but we are sorry to see that the course in Mediaeval Institutions has been given up. It was a course that could ill be spared, and our only hope is, that it may prove...
...after being won three successive times by the same man, it should become his private property. The distance in each case should be such as to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of the sprinter and the long-distance man. A Hundred-Yard Challenge Cup would prove very popular, as comparatively little training would be required...
...been felt by many men who have not the time to wade weekly through several papers like the Spirit of the Times, who yet desire to keep up with the athletic world at home and abroad. We hope our column may supply this want, and that its excellence may prove our excuse for inserting it. The information contained in it will be taken mainly from Bell's Life, Sporting and Dramatic News, Clipper, Turf, Field, and Farm, and the reliable sheet before mentioned. Thus we hope to present to our readers a bird's-eye view of amateur athletic sports...
...meaning. None of them vitiated our defence of true independence. For example, our error in quoting "Ossip" as calling not merely his imaginary independent man but every one who believes in complete independence "a disappointed aspirant for popularity," did not affect our subsequent arguments, which were not directed to prove the falsehood of our misquotation, but to defend independence and its necessary accompaniment, - the clear expression, when proper, of disapprobation. Next, he says that he merely stated where we said he argued a certain proposition. Any reader will see that our " argue " meant no more than " state." This is trivial...