Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understand that the leader of the brass band is having no little difficulty in getting the men in the band together for practice. The college depends on the band, not, to be sure, for the winning of some new championship from Yale, but rather for some good outdoor concerts later in the spring. The band too is an organization which is destined materially to help Harvard's reputation for musical ability. We hope therefore that in neither of these particulars, enjoyment or reputation, the college is to be disappointed. A little practice now on the part of the members...
...understand that the leader of the brass band is having no little difficulty in getting the men in the band together for practice. The college depends on the band, not, to be sure, for the winning of some new championship from Yale, but rather for some good outdoor concerts later in the spring. The band too is an organization which is destined materially to help Harvard's reputation for musical ability. We hope therefore that in neither of these particulars, enjoyment or reputation, the college is to be disappointed. A little practice now on the part of the members...
...still painfully crude and undeveloped. Let us look at it now;-twenty-two men, carefully trained and in the highest possession of all their powers, contest the game with all the confidence and skill that only careful instruction inspires. There they depended on numbers and strent to win the game; here, there is a possibility for fine work, all a man's energies, physical and mental, being brought into play. Instead of a must rushing hither and thither, we see brilliant runs, beautiful passes. long kicks, and clever tricks in dodging and tackling that would never have been learned, save...
...always come to debate on the occasion of a ministerial crisis, while mere abstract interest in the question under discussion has been found generally unable to move them. Each party in the House always feels itself called upon to put forth its most strenuous efforts, the opposition to win the honors, the ministry to retain them. All this adds a color to the contests, in which we also receive training in parliamentary law and "practice in politics...
...organized in the year 1769, and had for its first captain a graduate of 1770. The uniform consisted of "a blue coat, the skirts turned with white, nankeen breeches, white stockings, top boots, and a cocked hat." This company continued to rejoice the hearts of the students, and win the smiles of the Cambridge maidens for twenty years, till finally, indifference caused its death. Its last captain was a member of the class of 1787. After a sleep of twenty-one years, it was (in 1811) reorganized by Gov. Gerry, and then received the name of the "Harvard Washington Corps...