Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...words. Mr. Olney spoke of the treaties which Great Britain and the United States passed during the second Cleveland administration, though at the time much criticized, introducing Japan on an equality with all other countries. The one grievance which he found with Japan was that its military prowess, both on land and sea, is used as a reason, whether true or false, for the United States keeping up large war expenditures. "Japan," he said, "lies in the East and does not interfere with America. Both are island powers, in the military sense, and as Burke says, 'should make...
...between Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania. At Yale there is a fairly large squad, and wrestling promises to become a permanent feature of athletics. So far there has been no regular organization at Harvard to foster interest in this form of exercise, but several undergraduates have shown considerable prowess at open tournaments in the vicinity...
...results of this social club based primarily upon athletic prowess should be a greater esprit de corps among the members of the various teams, a greater incentive to become a member of a University team, and indirectly more victories. It will be an official organ to set the standard and voice the sentiments of Harvard athletics...
...week at New London has been a profitable one and the University crew's prowess over a four-mile course has been fairly well tested. In both of the time rows held last week, the time was fair, considering conditions, and from all accounts the crew could have rowed several seconds faster had there been occasion. Equally encouraging reports have been coming from the Yale quarters at Gales Ferry, and the Yale crew appears to be fully as fast as last year's eight with the added advantage of a little more weight. Like all of Kennedy's crews, their...
...distinct advantage in securing a group of men representing the best and sanest types of intellectual students, but it is not given them by the entire body of students of which they are a part and so can never be as powerful an approbation as that given for athletic prowess...