Word: proves
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...coming freshman class will contribute a good share of the football squad this year. Among its members are several athletes who have already achieved considerable reputation and who promise to prove valuable men in Harvard athletics...
...arbitrary selection of Harvard and Yale. In so doing they are guilty of a slight to the other colleges of the intercollegiate association, in which Harvard would, by her acceptance, silently acquiesce. It would be the more ungracious of her, since she did not in the games this year prove herself second best. Oxford and Cambridge, in replying to the intercollegiate challenge by a narrowed counter challenge, should, it would seem, have selected Yale and Pennsylvania, who hold the two leading places in track athletics. There certainly seems no adequate reason why a meeting like the one originally proposed...
...renewal of athletic contests between the two schools. It is absurd that such leading preparatory schools in the country should any longer be kept at variance merely for lack of general will to come to some agreement. In any league which may be now formed, it should not prove difficult to guard against a repetition of the conditions which led to the present separation. Out of experience, the schools should have learned sufficient wisdom to direct with success their mutual efforts toward maintaining friendly relations with each other...
...cricket team composed of past and present players from Cambridge University will visit the United States this season. The eleven will include some of the foremost cricketers of England, who, since leaving college, have gone rapidly to the front, and it will probably prove the strongest amateur eleven that has ever been seen in this country. The team will leave England about the last of August...
...display of trophies and prizes and for the posting of bulletins and notices, the windows of the office will prove of great convenience...