Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have learned from sad experience that a crew which rows to win must not only have undergone a rigid and severe course of discipline, but must have also acquired a uniformity of style, which is itself the result of long and constant training. Regularity and precision of stroke are essential conditions of success. Many methods have been adopted to secure these advantages, but none of them have proved particularly precise or accurate. Recently, however, a device has been resorted to among professional oarsmen which bids fair to accomplish the desired end. Photographs of crews in motion have been taken...
...have been at it, rain or shine, every day since the term began. The University of Pennsylvania has secured the services of a paid coach for the foot-ball season, and expects to give the other teams in the league a hard pull, even if she does not win one or two games,-a result not unexpected by many of the Pennsylvania men. Of Wesleyan, all that can be said is that she has always had a strong team in the past, as Harvard men cannot help remembering, and expects to equal her past teams this year, and to prove...
...COLUMBIA RACE.The Columbia 'Varsity crew of last year was said to be one of unusual power and speed. It was thought that Harvard, if it won at all, would win by but a narrow margin. The event, however, proved this view to be a mistaken...
...outlook for the crew is promising. The crew is not up to the exceptionally high standard of the '87 freshman crew; but on the other hand the Columbia '88 crew is inferior to their winning freshman crew of last year. The rapid improvement which the men have made during the past week, makes us believe that '88 will follow '86's example, and will win the race with Columbia...
...constitutes a liberal education and what latitude should be allowed a student in making his choice of studies, President Eliot of Harvard takes decidedly advanced ground. He insists that a university of liberal arts and sciences should give a student three things: Freedom in choice of studies, opportunity to win academic distinction in single subjects or special lines of study, and a discipline which imposes upon each individual responsibility of forming his own habits and guiding his own conduct. In support of this position he cites the example of European universities, which received students as young on the average...