Word: win
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...might do very well with the encouragement of being ahead, and perhaps might discourage or unnerve the crews behind. It is a game not often successful, but is the only one to be tried in such a case. Cambridge tried it this year, and although she did not win, she certainly came near breaking up the time of the Oxford boat during the first mile, and might have succeeded had there been a less steady, cool-headed stroke for the dark blues than...
...unto you, hypocrites! for ye make for yourselves mantles of another's virtue and would win heaven...
...serviceableness, come young men fresh from college. Their first year is often their best. They have to study a great deal through that year, and teach only what they have just been carefully reviewing. They are manly enough to command respect, and yet retain sympathy enough with boyhood to win the attachment of their pupils. They have not encountered the discouraging experiences, the damaging comparisons, the censorious criticisms, which are very apt to chill the enthusiasm of a second year, though a teacher of real merit is never seriously injured by them, and in good time learns to regard them...
...rows of hedge many cubits high. How glad we should be to bid farewell to the ancient structure! There is but one thing to mar our joy. "How can we bear to leave you," O boxes, whence we issued forth on those eventful afternoons feeling ourselves able to win victory from whatsoever club might combat us, on whose doors are inscribed the beloved names of Bush, Wells, Eustis, Perrin, White, and others over whose memories we linger with feelings nearly akin to reverence? But our sadness departs when we remember that those doors will be preserved and inlaid...
Another method which has been suggested is that there should be a few friendly games among those who were desirous of joining, and then those should form a club who could win a game from some player of known merit, after being given a certain amount of odds; then after the tournament was over the number of members should be limited, and membership only be offered to those who could win a game from some member of the already established club...