Word: won
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Norris Russell: an astronomer, whose study of nature's handiwork on her grandest scale has won a well-deserved renown...
...perhaps typical, and each one of the recipients represents one of the accomplishments toward which the University tries to direct its students. The honorary degree is the discriminating praise of a wise and impartial judge. It must be used not simply as further honor for men who have already won fame, but as the reward of greatness in the world's most honorable activities...
Altogether 31 players, 15 from Yale and 16 from Harvard, took part in a game played under scorching hot conditions which virtually exhausted the battery men. The Blue won by jumping on Whitmore in the fourth when he was nearly overcome with heat, and continuing to drub the offerings of Ketchum, Colpak, Molloy and Prior mercilessly throughout the remainder of the game. Coach Mitchell refused to send either of his star sophomore twirlers, MacHale or Page to the hill, preferring to reserve them for duty in Cambridge...
...world war caused a suspension of International contests but in 1921 Oxford and Cambridge sent a team to the Stadium the start of the biennial meetings. Harvard won that meet 8-2. Oxford and Cambridge won in London in 1923, by a score...
...teams were tied in first places in the last Stadium meet in 1927, but Harvard and Yale won with 7 1-2 seconds to 4 1-2 seconds. The American Collegians were favored to win the meet in 1927 at London but Oxford and Cambridge developed unexpected strength and won 7-3.FRESHMAN CAPTAIN WHO WON PLACE ON H-Y TEAM E. E. RECORD...