Word: win
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Rowing Association of American Colleges is now comprised of Princeton, Cornell, and Columbia, Its officers are: President, C. S. Boyd, Columbia; Vice-President, C. C. Clarke, Princeton; Secretary, J. N. Ostrom, Cornell; Treasurer, J. T. Good-win, Columbia. July 11 is the date fixed for the next regatta; the place has not been decided upon...
...result of this rule will be that every boat but one will win a flag. Another flag can then be bought, the means being raised by a subscription, and presented to the remaining boat, as being the sole survivor of the N. E. P. R. A. Thus each will have its flag, and all be happy...
...more people you please in the world the better off you will be; and although it is known that an attempt to serve God and Mammon at the same time is sure to end in failure, I have reason to believe that by careful management the same person may win the favor of college tutors on the one hand and of college students on the other. And your endeavors during the beginning of your course ought to be directed to that end. So I shall now try to tell you in this letter when you had better study, and when...
That a crew can win the first position only by successive years of working together, the Yale and Cornell crews have plainly shown. For a man to row one year and then, when just brought to some excellence as an oarsman and prepared to be of value, for him to desert, is a culpable betrayal of his crew and of his college. It may be argued that a man has a perfect right to row or not; and so he has; but not to stop rowing when he has once commenced. His personality is merged in the crew, - a university...
...they be disturbed from their peaceful somnolence and made useful to themselves and to Harvard. There does not seem to be a spark of enthusiasm where it can do any real good. Not a single volunteer worthy of present consideration has presented himself. Now, we can never hope to win a race while we go on in this way. It is impossible to get up a decent crew while no one cares to try for it. The present captain is forced to spend most of his time in urging men to join who ought to have volunteered long since...