Word: bested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...goods etc., and come down there and see you and perhaps make something. Now I would like to start Monday night and get there Tuesday morning April 16. Now if you could inform me by Te egraph (at my expense) where I could show up my goods at the best advan tage and have a little add in the college paper to this office [effect?] that I would be at such a place next Tuesday and Wednesday with a line of English tennis goods baseball and athletic goods of all kinds-it would be a great help...
Thirdly, a declaration made by the officers of the Princeton Football Association ("without any qualification whatever,") and certified by Professor Sloane as true "to the best of his knowlege and belief," that no member of the Eleven has been benefited in any pecuniary or business way by belonging to the team...
...cannot but regard it as contrary to the best interests of colleges and of college sport that players should return to college merely to engage in athletic contests. Last year there was a similar case at Harvard. So convinced was this Committee of the evils of the practice, that this year all candidates for the Eleven about whom any doubt was felt were sharply inquired about. The cases of five among thirty-one candidates were thus specially investigated. All of these five gentle men were and are "bona fide students on the rolls" of the University; against four of them...
Notice is also given that M. Loubat, member of the New York Historical society, has founded a prize of six hundred dollars to be given every third year for the best work printed concerning the history, geography, archaeology, ethnography, philology, and numismatics of North America. The detailed conditions of the prize may be learned by a reference to the notice posted in University...
...honors of the evening were without doubt carried off by the Banjo club. The programme opened with the Santiago waltz by the Sodality. The selection was well executed and evidently found great favor with the audience. Four songs by the Glee club followed, of which the "Cannibalee" was best liked. Mr. Fullerton sang the solo part in this, and an encore was demanded. The next on the programme was a Stranss polka "For Love of Her" arranged for the Banjo club. The selection was played with great spirit and precision. The soloist of the evening was Mr. L. A. Corne...