Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale and Princeton are making every effort to win this year and it will be necessary for us to put forth all our energies and enter a large and powerful team if we mean to carry off the cup. To be sure there are one or two events which we won last year and which can be considered, if all goes well, more or less certainties this year, and those who did well last year can be relied on to train faithfully this year again. Yet confidence in winning certain events should not lead us to think we have...
...course of preparation in Prof. Sophocles' hands until within a few years, when infirmity arrested his zeal and he showed a disinclination to allow his friends to get it into type. A knowledge of the condition in which this work will be found to have been left win be awaited with interest...
...foot-ball had degenerated greatly of late, and to sustain his position quoted from a New York newspaper in its account of the Harvard-Yale game. He also declared it well known that the Harvard eleven had gone to Princeton, determined to disable a prominent player if necessary to win the game. Mr. J. H. McIntosh, '84, opened for the negative. He drew an elaborate simile between the government of a state and the government of a faculty, and said that athletics were out of the control of the faculty, whose only duty was to aid the university...
...succumbed to their Yale classmates in base-ball, and it is time that a resolute "brace" should be made to turn the tide in the other direction. We have great faith in enthusiasm and firmly believe that if the present freshman go to work with the earnest determination to win and back it up with more faithful and harder work than has been done by their predecessors, they will have great probability of success. Let them once for all decide that they will not follow in the, in more than one sense, "beaten track" of former freshman nines...
...gentleman who wishes to represent a certain district in parliament, about a month before the election is to take place goes there, and immediately begins electioneering. He strives to become acquainted with the principal men, and win their sympathy. By means of dinner parties given by his friends, lectures, speeches, personal visits, etc., he endeavors to place himself prominently before the public. No opportunity for presiding at meetings of the Young Men's Christian Association," for opening fairs, and in short of impressing the public with a sense of his philantrophy and worth is neglected. The regular campaign consists...