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Word: proved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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students works well there or would prove a success here, we do not attempt to say, but certainly all will admit that the more college men are treated as men the more satisfactory it is to them, and the more enjoyable is life to a faculty who can rejoice in agreeable relations with the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conference Committee at Williams. | 10/15/1885 | See Source »

...thesis which shall equal in length the combined six themes. Of course it is very plain that it is easier to read and correct one long theme than it is to correct several short ones, aggregating the same length. Thus the affair is settled, and will, of course, prove highly successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/15/1885 | See Source »

...many of whose members played upon the team which last year brought to Cambridge the double championship, that of the inter-collegiate association and of the United States. While the match of this afternoon must not be looked upon in the light of an international contest, yet it will prove unusually interesting, and will afford the college a chance to be present at a game of lacrosse "as is lacrosse." Naturally enough the probabilities are that the Montreal men will score a victory, for their summer practice cannot fail to tell against the three months of inaction through which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/12/1885 | See Source »

...mass of unkind criticism. The city press is only too glad to magnify the most trivial college scrapes until they assume the dignified proportions of a riot, as many of our sister colleges can testify, and as the Boston press reports of Thursday's rush may be cited to prove. Another point which the students engaged in the melee should have remembered is, that the faculty may think it unwise to entrust the control of student matters to a conference committee, of whose members many are to be drawn from the two classes chiefly at fault in the recent display...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/10/1885 | See Source »

...games,-a result not unexpected by many of the Pennsylvania men. Of Wesleyan, all that can be said is that she has always had a strong team in the past, as Harvard men cannot help remembering, and expects to equal her past teams this year, and to prove a match for the University of Pennsylvania at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Prospects of Foot-Ball at Other Colleges. | 10/6/1885 | See Source »

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