Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gladly heard; and, at the same time that they help to heal the breach between themselves and students which is more nominal than real, they cannot fail to benefit our athletics, at least in some degree, If we can but thoroughly stir the spirit of Harvard, we may perhaps regain for her the athletic prestige which she has lost. The columns of the CRIMSON are gladly opened to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates alike...
...sure that their efforts will bring recognition. The men have worked hard and faithfully but without that entnusiasm which is necessary for victory. To this lack of support the defeat of Saturday may be directly traced, and, until this support is given, it is hopeless to expect Harvard to regain her old supremacy in lacrosse...
...country should regain its former maritime prestige because of (a) our national instinct-speech of Eustis, Congressional Record, vol. 17, p 4083; (b) our geographical position-Overland Monthly...
...position in literature. Later he was not even accorded the supremacy in literature. In the Augustan age and the later centuries he was not appreciated, and Virgil was held in higher estimation. With the revival of letters, at the period of the Renaissance, the Greek language began to regain much of its lost power and Homer to reassume his proper place in literature. England has the credit for the first protest against the position which criticism then accorded Homer in literature. Chapman, and later Pope, by their translations of his works, did much to arouse the world to a sense...
...Tuesday night the alumni of Union College living at Albany, N. Y., held a largely-attended banquet and afterwards formed an alumni association. Union College has been growing rapidly under the administration of the new president, and in a few years will probably regain the position which a college of almost a century's growth should have...