Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with the exhilaration of the rush itself, a few-we are glad to say, a few-seek pleasure in making conspicious their own bad taste. How much better and more manly it would be if the rush of "Bloody Monday Night" were purely a exhibition of class spirit and prowess, untainted by any show of ill-breeding...
This afternoon occur the spring class sports on Holmes field. These games serve the purpose of a trial for the university games which are to be held soon after, and furnish a special opportunity for new men to show their prowess. We hope that the freshman class will show up well in these games as it is from this class that the vacant places on the 'varsity team must be filled. A large number of men should be present this afternoon to encourage the contestants and to take the first opportunity of seeing the work that has been done...
...games from Williams and Technology, the two teams in the league which were considered her strongest rivals, and it is thought the pennant is almost won. The Tech. men were very confident of winning, but a score of 30-0 against them changed their opinion of our football prowess. Williams was still more confident, but fared scarcely better, being beaten by a score...
...extravagance exists at Harvard is closely connected with her fall in athletic spirit. Ten years ago, before the college was so continuously beaten, the honor of a position on the University team was sought after by every man of a class, college popularity being greatly dependent on the prowess of the bat and oar. So long as the positions were desirable, it was natural for them to be filled by men whose families had wealth and social standing; for such men came to college with bodies better reared and trained for skilful athletic work. Continued defeat has caused positions...
...freshman nine plays the second game of the series with Yale at New Haven. The athletic prowess of a class is always measured by its athletic victories during its first year in college, and no victory is of more importance, from the difficulty and rarety of its attainment, than the great "fence game" at New Haven. For any Yale freshman class to be deprived of the fence is a stigma of which little conception can be formed here, and we may be sure that Yale will strain every nerve to gain possession of those sacred wooden bars before they...