Word: winning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There were still two innings for 1900, and from the strong game that they had been playing it looked as though they would win out; but they were easily retired in the eighth inning by two foul flies and a fly to McCall...
...better work if given the hearty support of the students, and there can certainly be no objection to the latter's giving their representatives the recognition and encouragement which they have earned by their work for the University. Let us have fair play, of course; but let us also win if we can, and try every fair means to that end. Cheering for a team cannot be unfair to its opponents, and it certainly is a help toward good playing, as was shown in yesterday's baseball game; while there was some enthusiasm on the part of the spectators...
...contents of the May Monthly are varied in character and in interest. A perusal of "Clippings from a College Scrap Book" reads like a fairy tale. Here are chronicles of the days when Harvard used to win, when her victories were due to "Harvard discipline," and it does one good to read of the golden...
...John Corbin's article in a recent number of Harper's Weekly on "Why Harvard does not Win" serves as the but against which Grilk '98 has levelled a very good bit of forensic writing. He has shown rather conclusively that a movement toward athletic reform lies not in a reorganization of our social system, nor in the proposed plan of disintegration into smaller colleges which Mr. Corbin, after a year or two at Oxford, advocates strongly, but rather in a greater unity and a broader sympathy among all undergraduates, inspired not alone by the hope of athletic success...
...greatest disappointments was Grant's poor showing in the mile run. He was expected by Harvard to win five points but instead, he allowed himself to be outgeneraled by the Yale men, and did not get a place. Spitzer, a Yale man, set a very fast pace which Grant held for two laps. Spitzer then dropped out exhausted and the Yale men, passing Grant, easily won all three places. Another disappointment was Hoyt's inability to win any points in the pole vault...