Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...defeat Yale this afternoon the Harvard track team needs every resource at its command. At the beginning of the season the outlook promised anything but victory today; yet, the splendid showing against Dartmouth and the steady improvement during the past week now leads us to look forward confidently to a Harvard victory. Last year we lost to Yale; the year before we won by the smallest of margins; and now the meets stand ten apiece. It is almost needless to say that the team realizes this situation. We think that very little urging will bring out a large...
Also, from another point of view, this meet is a critical one for the 1912 track team. A victory today will give the maximum impetus against Yale next Saturday; a defeat will go far toward repeating the results of last year...
...affirmative against Princeton at Princeton. The Yale team will at the same time uphold the negative against Princeton at New Haven. The subject for all three debates will be, "Resolved, That the initiative and referendum should be generally adopted in American states." The university whose two teams shall defeat their opponents will be announced the winner. Tickets at 10 cents each for the debate in New Lecture Hall may be obtained at the Rendezvous...
During the season the University team has won two bouts, from Columbia and Bowdoin, and lost four, to Annapolis, University of Pennsylvania, West Point and Yale. The defeat at the hands of Yale was retrieved in the preliminaries at West Point, when the University team defeated Yale...
...University boat rowed against Princeton. In that race, which Columbia won, Harvard finished third, a good distance ahead of Princeton and Yale. In all, there were nine boats entered. Ten years later Princeton rowed its last race, until the construction of Carnegie Lake last year enabled Princeton to defeat Yale in a triangular race which Cornell won. This spring Harvard, Princeton, and Cornell will meet on the Charles...