Word: victor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...always present to dress the wounds and control the fighters. Generally the duel is short and lasts but a few moments. Occasionally, when the duelists are both fine swordsmen, the struggle may last for twenty or thirty minutes. When one is wounded he is led away and his victor must fight a fresh foe. If he succeeds in vanquishing all comers he is declared the class champion and is obliged to fight all challengers. The wound received is not dangerous but always leaves a scar, and almost every student one meets in a university town bears the marks...
...Russian journal contains an account of a conversation between Turgeneff and some literary friends in which the novelist is reported to have said of Victor Hugo: "In the course of a talk with me on Goethe he expressed the opinion that he couldn't find anything great in the writings of that author. When I drew his attention to the fact," continues Turgeneff, "that 'Wallenstein's Camp' was by Schiller, and not by Goethe, he answered: 'That is all the same thing-Goethe and Schiller, they are fruits of the same tree; and believe me that I know, even without...
Prince Albert Victor of Wales has entered Trinity College, Cambridge, England...
Concerning Prince Albert Victor at Cambridge, Labouchere says: "It is cruel to condemn an unfortunate young man to dine at a high table among the dons, whose conversation is of the dullest description...
...better play, but was defeated by nervousness more than by any other cause. The order of the colleges was as follows : In the "all round" double tournament Harvard was first, Yale, Brown, Amherst and Trinity following in the order named. In the "single drop out" tournament, Harvard being the victor. Yale, Brown, Trinity Amherst and Wesleyan followed in the above order. The question of a spring tournament was discussed but no decision was reached...