Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Haven in May. In the hundred and two twenty, Moen, '91, and Lee, '91, are the best men. Lee is running in splendid form and is expected to give Sherrill a big surprise. Wells, the winner of the college quarter for the past three years, is expected back to win the event again this year. Other promising candidates for the quarter are Bachelder, '91, Wright, '91, and Rhoades, '92. Stead, '91, and Davenport, '90, are looked upon as sure winners for the half-mile and the mile run respectively. Mandel, '89, and Bell, '90 are very good...
After looking at the question from all sides we can see no reason why the class games should be given up. It is true that the lacrosse team is a university organization and because beaten by Princeton last year must do their best to win this year. Moreover, as matters now stand, for this year at least lacrosse practice is necessary. But we also think that the class ball games are necessary as well as popular. They are a regular part of our athletics, and are necessary as giving valuable practice to the Freshman nine. If the freshman team does...
...general co-operation. For "men must work individually to induce promising fellows to become candidates for the various teams; men must themselves discuss athletic questions," more thoroughly, so as to let athletic men feel "that they are the representatives of a compact body of men" who are "determined to win." The next topic is the new regulations of the faculty, which are criticised in the same vein as the other restrictive rules and recommendations. They are pronounced "inconsistent with our character of a university, and petty, trivial, and unjust." The last subject of discussion is the mass meeting of April...
...present there seems to be a good chance for making a hard and even a winning fight for the championship. There are enough old men to form a good nucleus, and as the new material is unusually promising, the team will probably be stronger than that of last year. If no accidents happen to the players, Harvard may hope to win back the honors which now rest with Princeton...
Columbia expects to win the following events at the Mott Haven Intercollegiate contests: The tug of-war, Mapes in the hurdle race and broad jump, Banks in the quarter, McIlvaine or Collis in the mile walk, and Hornbostle or Vosburg in the mile run, with a number of seconds...