Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Sanders Theatre, Princeton will meet Harvard at Princeton, and Yale and Princeton will compete in New Haven. In each case the negative team debates at home. While the University has a better record than either Yale r Princeton in the triangular contests, our men will have the double defeat of last year to overcome tonight. Victory will go to the University winning two of the simultaneous debates. The subject to be debated at all three universities this evening is, "Resolved, That the United States Government should exempt our coastwise trade from Panama Canal tolls." The issues in the question depend...
...twenty-two debates held with Yale, Harvard has won sixteen, and also ten of the eighteen held with Princeton. Last year the University team lost and their defeat was due in part to insufficient financial support by the student body. If the University wants to continue this splendid record, it must support its teams financially. At Yale, debating is supported by the college office, and at Princeton by two debating societies to which most of the students belong and pay annual dues. At Harvard it is true that the Coolidge Fund pays part of the expenses of the debaters...
Marsters discussed the better and cleaner aspect of the game in recent years and said that Harvard teams had now attained a standard of excellence where the defeat of Johns Hopkins was most to be desired and worked for. This University has been undefeated for five years and every effort must be made to secure a victory for Harvard this season...
This season has been the first since swimming was recognized as a minor sport, and with the exception of a defeat by Yale, the season has been a successful one. Over 70 men reported for practice when the call for candidates was made, and, although this squad had to be cut down within a few days, owing to the limited facilities offered in the Y. M. C. A. tank, there has been much interest shown in the sport, and a squad of nearly twenty men has been working regularly throughout the winter...
...University has won the championship of the northern division of the Intercollegiate Lacrosse League for the past three years. Four years ago it tied for the title, and for the two preceding years won the championship. For the past ten years Harvard has hardly known defeat in lacrosse. Though this year's schedule is considered an unusually difficult one, there is no reason to believe that the team will fall to uphold its enviable past record...