Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dashes the Freshmen sprung a surprise; Cummin won the 100-yard dash by a narrow margin and Billings pulled away from the Yale runners in the 220, winning easily with Ranney second. The hurdles went to Yale; in the 120 Dupont finished second and undoubtedly would have placed in the 220 if he had not tripped...
...which would have caused laughter in a university audience only a few years ago, as until recently western peoples considered Christianity to be the only religion and that non-religion and irreligion alone stood opposed to it. Happily Christians now see that Asia, not Israel whence Christianity sprung, is the mother of religions and that there are other vital faiths besides their own. The East has clung to the pantheistic and polytheistic of these beliefs, but the West has developed monotheism of which Christianity is the highest form...
...barring out from Yard rooms for Senior year of those men taking their fourth undergraduate year in one of the graduate schools has certainly been "sprung on us suddenly...
...Seniors argued that while trusts in their present condition are attended with undeniable evils, still the system as a whole is better than that of cut-throat competition from which it stated the trust had sprung through a natural growth. The Seniors submitted that the trust should be considered not only as it exists today but also from the standpoint of the ultimate condition which in the course of natural evolution it will attain. The Juniors objected to this interpretation, arguing that the consideration of the question should embrace only the trust as an actual condition of the present...
...take a new step in the organization of American rowing. The increased interest in rowing is shown by the enthusiastic support given by undergraduates to newly formed rowing clubs in many of the universities and by the success in many places of interscholastic rowing associations. From these sources have sprung a body of men whose interest has been aroused and whose attitude toward rowing is very different from that of the average university oar of the past. More intelligent methods of training and a dawning idea that rowing is not a drudgery, but a sport and a recreation, have worked...