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Word: winning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...uncertain, we can venture no prophecies. And yet the college has good reason to expect a successful outcome of to day's game. The nine has shown up well the past few days, and has already defeated Brown severely. Careful play throughout, confidence, but not over-confidence, ought to win for the crimson the first game of the championship series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/1/1886 | See Source »

...oars-women" as they take their places in their boat and glide over the lake. Dr. Holmes' may have written with prophetic insight when he described in "A Mortal Antipathy," a close and exciting race between crews of opposite sexes, which the representatives of the young ladies institute finally win by a clever ruse - tempting the gallantry of their opponents. If the present progress in athletic training continues, who can tell how soon Dr. Holmes' imaginary race may become a reality in a contest between the champion eights of Wellesley and Harvard? But the students at Wellesley do not give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletics at Wellesley. | 4/28/1886 | See Source »

...annual wail over the freshman nine has again come to us from Yale. The News says: "As the time approaches for the freshman ball game, it would seem that '89 ought to be putting forth her best efforts to beat Harvard, and win the fence. But we are sorry to find that this is far from the case. It hardly seems possible that the freshmen do not realize the necessity of good, earnest work, thorough training and enthusiasm. The Harvard nine will, without doubt, be one of the strongest their freshmen have ever put in the field. Their battery will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/23/1886 | See Source »

...seems that the 89 Chess Club is on a fair way to win the first game in the match with the Columbia freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/21/1886 | See Source »

...election the votes should be cast with as much care. The hall has certainly prospered the last year or two; but it needs good conscientious officers to secure for it future prosperity. To the present officers credit is due; may the future officers be such as to win credit also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/19/1886 | See Source »

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