Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON, great dissatisfaction is felt by the freshman class and by the captain of the freshman crew because many of the men who were members of the football team will not begin training for the crew. Only a few have presented themselves as candidates. Every freshman crew gets its strongest and best candidates from the men who made up the football eleven in the fall. This is the usual custom, and it can not be departed from in the present case. The men who refuse to come out and try for the crew, or at most, delay and make excuses...
...western trip of the Glee and Banjo clubs terminated Monday night, the men arriving in Cambridge at a late hour. The tour in every respect satisfied the strongest hopes of all the members. Before houses crowded with the most enthusiastic audiences, the clubs did themselves great credit, and deserve the heartiest thanks of the college for so admirably representing it. The Harvard clubs at the different cities seemed to vie with one another in the manner of receiving their guests, and nothing was wanting in the way of hospitality...
...next season Harvard sent out the strongest team which had yet represented her, and this nine met the Yale team on July 5, 1870. The club went on the field with great confidence, but played its poorest game, and barely escaped defeat. The score in this game was: Harvard, 24; Yale...
...close of the last college year Rochester University suffered a double loss, in the withdrawal from its faculty of two of its strongest and most popular members, Pres. Martin B. Anderson, and Dr. Harrison E. Webster, who was recalled to his Alma Mater, Union College, as its president...
...Haven. The team this year has the advantage of playing on its own grounds, which is one reason at least why it should be victorious. The contest is more than a class contest; it represents in a way the college itself, and this is the is the strongest reason why the freshmen should make every effort to win it. We urge the team to improve every hour of the time that remains, and we wish the best success in the contest next Saturday...