Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whereas the responsibility of the success or non-success of any organization should be shared by the college. Lately there has been an undertone of discontent with the workings of the different teams, which has shown itself in perpetual grumbling and fault-finding. If we expect to win on the athletic field, we must work together, the college with the captains and men. We must give the teams our moral as well as financial support. The moral support is nowhere more needed than at the games or races...
...have to work hard to keep up the splendid record made last year. In the doubles our men will have to work especially hard, for they will have as their opponents the pair that won the national tennis tournament at Staten Island this fall. If our team succeeds in winning the laurel from them, they will, indeed, have done something to be proud of. If we cannot win in the other departments of athletics, at least let us hope that we shall retain our reputation for tennis. Our best wishes go with the players today...
Some freshman wished to win immortal fame by having himself lowered from the top of the water tower and painting in orange 150 feet from the ground a large '92 seven feet in length...
...above record is not a one of which Harvard should be ashamed We have outplayed nearly every opponent we have met. The fielding of the nine leaves nothing to be desired but at the bat Harvard is wofully weak. Fielding alone will not win us the game here Saturday. Base hits must be made if Harvard expects to bring the championship to Cambridge this year...
...which have taken place in the art of rowing since the days when the races were rowed on Lake Quinsigamond or Lake Saratoga, and when Harvard and Yale were willing to meet the crews of the smaller colleges seem to have been following a logical development. The ambition to win has resulted in a greater mastery of watermanship, and the colleges which have had less material to draw from, or which have allowed their interests to flag, have been left behind, so that Harvard and Yale have been justified in their exclusiveness. Of these two colleges, neither can claim superiority...