Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...back to Cambridge. Of the successful team of Harvard men last May, Goodwin, who won two of the first prizes, has graduated, as have two of the winners of second prizes, Allen and Mandell. Yale and Columbia have their teams of a year ago practically intact, so that to win this year, we must strain every nerve to fill up the vacancies, if we hope to even approach the foremost position. Nothing but long and steady work on the part of every man who has any show at all for the Mott Haven team can save us from an overwhelming...
Instead of pennant for the class wining the greatest number of events in the three meetings, the notice simply says that a prize will be given. Last year '85 won the pennant. A general excellence prize will be given as usual. The events to be contested to win it are the parallel bars, flying rings, horizontal bars, running high jump, two hand vault, and running broad jump. The last event has been substituted for the standing high jump, which formerly was one of the sertes for the general excellence cup. Entries can be made to the secretary of the association...
...best work on his master the Czar. The Academy, therefore, now announces a prize competition for this bequest. Inasmuch as the original donation with its accretions will amount to $1,000,000 on the day for awarding the prize, it will be quite worth one's while to win it. The fact that the essay is to be written in Russian will not keep anybody from competing, for there will be plenty of time to learn that language before 1925, the year when the prize will be awarded. There is no reason whatever why some member of English...
...will have to occupy the seats vacated. There are several promising men among the candidates who offered themselves on Saturday, that is to say, they are strong well made, and possess the necessary weight. As to the most important point to be considered-namely their determination to win-it is fruitless, at this early stage, to make any predictions. Very few of the men have had any valuable coaching and they will have to be taught the science of rowing from the beginning. This will compel the old men to go over much that they have learned before...
...United States as yet possesses but few colleges, but it is fair to suppose that in the near fature, our seminaries of learning win vie with the foremost institutions of Europe...