Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...view of the projected Yale Meetings, and a desire to keep at Harvard the championship cup, (which will be on exhibition in the Gymnasium as soon as it is finished), it would be well for our athletes to realize that if we desire to retain the position in athletics which our Mott Haven Team of last year gained for us, we cannot content ourselves with resting on their laurels, but must make up our minds to work well and faithfully with that end in view...
...Yale News urges the managers of the Athletic contests to post the dates of the events as soon as possible, and cites Harvard as a good example of enterprise in this direction. Judging from appearances, both colleges are doing their utmost, the one to win, the other to retain, prestige. At all events, the coming contests can hardly fail to be of interest. The Courant, in speaking of the letter by a Yale graduate in a recent CRIMSON, declares that "When a good solid blow is to be struck, there is nothing for the purpose like an intellect trained...
...still clung to the head, even when severed from the trunk; that the ghosts, as it were, of former senses, loath to depart, still hovered about me? And it diverted me that the faculty for punning should of all be the most tenacious. I felt a new ambition, - to retain my faculties as long as possible. I determined that by mere force of will I would prevent them from leaving...
...indoors on an asphalt track, and it remains for the spring sports to show whether Mr. Clark can do as well on a cinder track. It is not too much to say, however, that Johnson will have to ride much faster next September than he did last year, to retain the amateur championship title. It may be of interest to state that Mr. Clark will probably be in '84 at Columbia, and will prove a dangerous opponent at the Intercollegiate next year, in case a bicycle race is added to the programme, which is more than probable, as Columbia, Princeton...