Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sophomores then by steady work advanced the ball down the field and seemed to have a good prospect of scoring when time was called. In the second half Whitman took Wardner's place. The play was very even but owing to the darkness neither side was able to accomplish anything...
...thought and educational sentiment are becoming yearly a more important influence upon public opinion. To further such influence Republican clubs have been formed in many of the colleges. In political clubs of former years, the idea has been more to get fun out of torchlight processions etc., than to accomplish any particular good...
...existence of their crew to back up the glee club and contribute even the price of a ticket. The concert may have come at a bad time of the year it is true, but the college must learn some time or other that if it ever wants to accomplish anything it will have to undergo a little self-sacrifice. There probably is not a man in Harvard who would not call it the greatest shame if the crew were prevented from going to New London merely because the students were not open handed enough to send it down...
...Skinner and Dinsmore were the only ones to accomplish much with the willow. The former played a careful 16, and the latter made a rattling good 15, consisting of two fours, three twos, and a single...
...increase their lead. A slightly stonger batting team than Hopkinsons would have won the game. One of the first things that the team will have to learn is that every game, no matter how weak the opposing team, demands their strongest play. To play by spurts will never accomplish much, while it weakens the work of the nine as a whole and developes laziness. It is too early to expect the team play to be what it ought to be later on, but there ought to be daily improvement in this, as well as in batting, in which the team...