Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of the record to date of one victory and three defeats, the University baseball team should be able to defeat Yale this afternoon when the nines meet at 3.30 o'clock. Chief faults with the team so far have been due to a lack of experience, and the last three games have done a great deal to overcome them...
...enemy storm heavy over the Channel ports. Today we read of a British Cabinet Minister warning his countrymen against a coming peace offensive. And yet the week that is gone has witnessed no Waterloo, no battle of the Marne, though it may be that Von Arnim's defeat between Ypres and Locre may be discovered some day to have borne a much greater significance than the very considerable importance we attach to it now. What we are witnessing today in the spirit of the Allies is the natural rebound after the surmounting of a crisis. Only that "rebound" hardly describes...
Dartmouth went down to defeat before the University golfers at the Woodland Golf Club yesterday afternoon when the Crimson players took four out of five matches. G. A. Whittemore '18 brought in the low score of the day with a good 84. The teams played Nassau count and of the 15 points possible the University took...
...sentiment? A more complete knowledge of the hellishness of German and Teuton intrigue has been the means, the accompanying realization that the world must be made safe for democracy, is responsible for that change. So long as public opinion is determined that the ultimate welfare of civilization demands the defeat of Germany, Prussianism is doomed. America believes now, as never before, that the fate of humanity rests with her. Such an ideal is too noble to perish. And America is to be truly thankful, not merely because of her large Army and Navy, but primarily because the nation realizes that...
...resumption of athletics last Saturday showed by the result of three victories that Harvard teams still have the ability to "tame the Tiger," which has been such a favorite pastime in former years. It has not always been an easy task to defeat Princeton and often we have failed, but our success this year has almost exceeded all expectations. There is cause for exultation in this alone. Yet the outcome of Saturday's games is gratifying not only from a competitive point of view, but also from the standpoint of its relation to this spring's formal system of sport...