Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...looked up, and one last look is apt to suggest another. Tutoring is also extensively resorted to, and the students who are willing, for a consideration, to give their time to aiding their backward companions are kept busy. Some men make a business of this tutoring, and, if successful, win a college reputation. The fact that tutoring exists is, of course, known to the faculty, and sometimes encouraged by that body. At any rate, these student instructors have saved many a man from being heavily conditioned or dropped from his class...
...OFLRICHS TOURNAMENT.Saturday the tournament for the Oelrichs challenge cup was played, under the direction of the National Lacrosse Association. Six clubs were entered, Williamsburgh, Princeton, Stevens Institute, University of New York, Druids of Baltimore, and Harvard. The general expectation in New York was that Williamsburgh would win. The contest took place in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Occasional showers of rain made the ground slippery and treacherous under the players' feet. The first game was between the Druids and Stevens Institute. The Druids won after a hard fought contest, by a score of four goals to three. Williamsburg and Harvard played...
...played, and that game was in New Haven where every freshman nine has been defeated. No one claims that our freshman nine is stronger than yale's, but it is plainly no more than justice that the series should be played and the Harvard freshmen given a chance of winning it. Whether our freshmen would win or lose, it is a little previous to jump on them before they have had a fair chance...
...they have been forced to change the positions of two men in the university boat, and thereby have weakened it. The effect has been noticeable in the feeble, ragged stroke which the crew is now rowing. As this has been done so lately in the year their chances of winning the race have been materially lessened, as any change in the make up of a crew is unfortunate at such a time," etc., etc. Now it seems as if we had heard a tale very similar to this before; the great foot-ball eleven last year which only succumbed...
...Princeton students confidently expect that their nine will win one of the Princeton Harvard series...