Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sporting Life thinks that without Brooks and Hamilton, Yale will scarcely be able to win the Inter-Collegiate...
...from her alumni in general, as tending toward Harvard. Says the Princetonian in closing, "Now it looks at present very much as if the Yale alumni are going finally to carry the day. And if, moreover, it be not wholly unreasonable to suppose that the Harvard alumni will ultimately win their alma mater to their principles, can it be an altogether vain speculation for us to hope that in the race of American colleges, Yale will continue to head for Harvard after Harvard has headed for Princeton and, that, Princeton's educational principles acknowledged supreme, Princeton will naturally take...
...also complaint about the inequality of the courses. This is largely a matter of opinion. What makes one course harder than another? It is simply a man's inadaptibility to that course. What is hard for one man is easy for another and conversely. If a man wishes to win honors and fails to keep pace with his competitors, instead of complaining about the course, he should seek more fruitful fields for his labor...
...entirely different from those at use at Harvard; they have a greater variety of exercises, thus causing changes to be more frequent. Their training on the whole is more thorough than heretofore, and it would be well for the Harvard freshmen to bear this in mind. In order to win next June they will have to continue the good work they are now doing in the gymnasium. Harvard, '89, has a larger and finer set of men than Columbia, and they are likewise heavier, but it has often been shown that "beef" is not absolutely essential to make a good...
...team, while Yale has only three first prize men. From this it would seem that Harvard's chances were far better than Yale's, if it were not for the fact that Yale will this year increase her strength by sending more men. By doing this Yale can win several second prizes which, together with the probability that another first prize will be taken, gives her a fair show...