Word: won
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Robert Grant, George E. Woodberry, C. A. Prince, William G. Peckham, E. D. Hawkins, Edward Hale. E. A. Hibbard, H. W. Hardon. T. L. Frothingham, T. T. Baldwin, C. O. Brewster, and others. The book includes Dr. Peabody's preface, Dr. O. W. Holmes' poem. "How the Old Horse Won the Bet," dedicated to the editors of the Harvard Advocate, and three verses by Frederick W. Loring, to college comrades...
...CRIMSON certainly should be acted upon - and that immediately. I refer to his suggestion in regard to cups or similar trophies to be given to the members of last year's freshmen nine. The nine achieved what no other Harvard freshman nine had hitherto succeeded in doing - they won both games of the freshman series from Yale, they worked hard and faithfully, keeping up their training with praiseworthy assiduity; and yet their glorious victory has apparently been utterly forgotten by their apathetic classmates, It may be indeed, that this state of affairs has only existed from a lack of some...
...possible danger to our friends who hold the reins of authority at our sister college. We hope that they will examine most thoroughly the changes which have been made with us and will profit, we speak with all modesty, by the victories which we have won...
...presented themselves to try for positions was gratifying, but Harvard has especial need of a strong team this year. Yale came very near wresting the cup from us last lear, and judging from the present outlook she will make the contest even closer this spring. The men who won prizes for Yale are almost, without exception, still in college; while we have lost Baker, the winner of the 220 yards dash; and Bradley, Chamberlain, Smith and Wheeler, winners of second prizes. Two members of the last year's tug of war team are no longer in college, although the fact...
...list of all four classes ranked in together. Then an inferior man would no longer be screened by the inferiority of his classmates. Special assignments are, on the whole, unjust; every needy man in college can work hard enough to be entitled to aid, and because a man who won't work hard, happens to be the grandson of a member of an old class, or a distant relative of a founder of a fund, he is not by that any more worthy of help...