Word: victor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Titan athletic games, Victor Mapes, of Columbia, won the hundred yards dash in 10 1-5 seconds...
...third-year class only. Essays must be sent to the secretary of the Association, Mr. Louis D. Brandeis, on or before June 1, 1889. The prize will be awarded at the meeting of the Association held in Cambridge in June, 1889. Austin G. Fox, Samuel B. Clarke and Victor Morawetz, as committee, selected the subjects and will award the prize...
...made an earnest appeal against the use of earthly motives in our lives. We are too apt to look at events which have spiritual significance for us only in the light of historical fates. The resurrection means to many of us merely that Christ arose as victor over death, and that we who are his followers will arise likewise; but the true meaning for us should be as Paul said it was-an actual experience of our present life. God is ever with us, and we should feel his presence and live our life for and in Him alone...
...life of the Arabian poets was like that of the medixval troubadours. The minstrels wandered from place to place, and sang their own poems to intelligent and critical audiences at public gatherings. Trials of skill were frequent, and great rewards fell to the share of the victor...
...Saturday the University of Cambridge conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon Prince Albert Victor, Lords Salisbury, Roseberry and Randolph Churchill, Mr. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for England...