Word: winning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...making the choice, several considerations besides an aggregate of high grades receive attention. For example, a man who has taken principally easy courses, or a man whose work has fallen off from year to year, may not win election, when another man with less A's to his credit may be elected because he has shown ability in difficult courses and has constantly improved. The narrow specialist, and the man who has not specialized at all are equally apt to fail of election. Moreover, the electors take into account success in winning prizes for essays, in debating, and in other...
...society aims to give substantial recognition to those men who believe that intellectual effort is worth while; it aims to do for the scholar what the "H" and the Varsity Club do for the athlete. Though sheer "grinding" or absolute indifference to scholarship are not likely to win election, membership is within the reach of any man of good ability who is willing to do, even at some sacrifice, the best work of which he is capable. It is interesting to note that at Yale, at a recent straw vote in which the classes of '07, '11, and '14 took...
...MacLaughlin '11 was the star of the meet, winning all six of his matches, though Z. C. Ross, the Yale captain, was a close second. As the score shows, Princeton was completely outclassed, Gardiner being the only man to win. The score of the individual men is as follows...
This action is certainly worthy of commendation. Too often intense rivalry and a keen desire to win combine to deprive contests of all sportsmanship. Such a condition cannot fall to be detrimental to the best interests of sport and is apt to prove fatal to the fundamental purpose of athletic rivalry--the encouragement and furtherance of pleasant personal relations between different colleges...
...University hockey team finished its season on Saturday evening by defeating Yale at the St. Nicholas Rink in New York by the close score of 3 to 2. This victory, together with Cornell's win over Dartmouth, places Harvard in second place in the league standing, 200 points behind Cornell and 400 ahead of Yale and Columbia, which teams are tied for third place. Dartmouth and Princeton each lost four games and are tied for the bottom position...