Word: vim
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...awakening the energies of the then nearly dormant nine, and of bringing before it a correct idea of what the college has a right to expect that it will accomplish this spring. The number of candidates almost immediately doubled and all set to work with an energy and vim which was truly admirable, but only suggestive of the great difficulties which will have to be overcome if a respectable nine is to be placed in the field this year. The system of training which is at present being carried out is only initiative of the work which...
...taking hold of rowing with a vim that bodes well for our success next summer. Commodore Psotta, our veteran sculler. has taken things in hand with even more than his customary vigor. A new era is about to begin in the history of rowing at Cornell. The day of four-oared rowing is over. Perhaps all are not aware that the old intercollegiate association is finally and permanently broken up. To the recent call for a convention, not a single college responded. Cornell's record in the association has been a brilliant one and she comes...
...that rule, but still there was hardly a speech that evening which did not turn upon the evils which had beset and were besetting Harvard life, and there was a spirit of earnestness and determination shown which, if transplanted into every class in college without losing any of its vim and courage, Yale could no longer be called "champion," and parents would no longer hesitate to send their sons to Harvard...
Yesterday afternoon the freshman eleven defeated a picked '90 eleven by a score of 10 to 6. Only twenty minutes were played but the freshmen played with a good deal of vim and system...
...Princetons and Hugh Oliphant, a graduate of the college, speak for their fellow graduates, and contend that Cowan is one of the fairest players who ever kicked a ball. He is undoubtedly the strongest man of the team, and his presence and playing always inspire the other players with vim and courage. When he was ordered to step aside and make room for another the Princeton boys lost courage and could not play with the usual skill and confidence. Cowan was ruled out for "foul tackling," and it is insisted he was not guilty of such action. Had he been...