Word: proved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...book of Dr. Von Hoist, who is known so intimately by the large number of men who take or have taken History 13, is reviewed in the current number of the "Nation." The following extracts may prove interesting...
...continue the course which they have marked out as right for themselves, but wrong for others? In order that the evil here may be eradicated we appeal to all to remember the privileges of all the students and not their own private desires alone. If our appeal will prove of no avail, the matter will be with the college authorities who we trust will make an example of whom ever they find resorting to the mean tactics which have been displayed hitherto...
...that Yale has a better team than Harvard. It is ridiculous that such a state of affairs should exist. Can it be that the solution lies in that lackadaisical spirit which is said to pervade Harvard society? May the event of to-day's game prove that energy, not the best material, can win at base-ball...
Harvard's new cedar boat, which was imported from England, does not prove entirely satisfactory on trial. The oars are very heavy and are too long for the present rig of the boat. The sliding seats may prove satisfactory on further trial, but the rest of the rig will probably be changed. The crew has not room enough at present in the boat to get down to their work, as the craft was not rigged as ordered. The welding on the out-riggers is very imperfectly done, and it is not yet settled whether the wooden thole-pins will...
...campus has seen far too few fires for victories of late years. Princeton seems to have started, and only started, back to a respectable showing in track athletics. The bottom was reached last year. This year one second, and a first, only won gloriously to be lost unaccountably, may prove a nest egg from which to hatch a cup some day. Princeton luck is inexplicable. We win and we lose, and no one knows why we win or why we lose. In college athletics fortune favors whom she favors, and that is all there...