Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Seniors Win the Eight-oared Event in the Union Regatta by Three-quarters of a Length...
...this tale, but what (fresh) man hath done, that (fresh) man can do. Let me assure the freshman nine that the game will be an object of great interest to many others than the members of their own class, and that none will take more pleasure in seeing them win the game than those members of the class of '81 who may have the good fortune to be present...
...will lend their support by attending the game - as is said to have been the case at Yale - but we do feel confident that there will be a large enough crowd to give the freshmen all the encouragement they need. We expect them to make a desperate effort to win, remembering that this is their last chance to break the record, so long unbroken, of Yale's freshman victories. Let each man imitate the Yale freshmen and "step to the bat with tightly drawn muscles and determined face," remembering that, although he has not the possession of a fence...
...even if the freshmen do not win the game they can rest assured that they are not placed in the unenviable position of the defeated Yale freshmen. What that position is, it is almost impossible for a Harvard man to understand. The Courant confesses that, in case of defeat, the existence of the freshmen throughout their college life would have been a miserable one. "As to the 'result,' had our freshmen met defeat, we can form no conception. No class now in college ever knew of such a deplorable state of affairs. Yale is the wrong place for the unsuccessful...
Eight minutes are allowed in which to win smiles, bouquets and undying glory. When your little song is ended you will be tenderly tipped off the boards into the arms of "pa" and "ma" and thence out upon the "arenar" into the arms...