Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale baseball team has been very successful the past ten days, beating Columbia 8 to 2 on Wednesday, April 21; Brown 3 to 2, last Saturday, and Georgetown, 3 to 2 on Wednesday. This was Brown's first defeat of the season, due largely to Yale's making the most of its opportunities. Way pitched splendid ball after the first inning, when Babington's home run with a man on base gave Brown its only runs of the game...
...This equation if we are to make the results as accurate, as possible should be taken into account, and there are many easy ways in which the difficulty could be solved. Possibly it will be argued that the crews rowing in a short shell accepts the chance of defeat by inches as counterbalanced by the belief that the model of their boat is worth the difference in speed. R.H.H...
...most casual examination of the University's record in track during the past few years will serve to show that something is radically wrong. Last year, its position in the Intercollegiate Meet was seventh, to which record may be added a defeat by Yale. Nor are prospects this year much more promising. The team has been crippled by the unexpected loss of several of its best men. Some of this can be laid to bad luck, but by no means all of it. Something is fundamentally wrong; something which only a radical change can correct...
...received in regard to the summer camps are a criterion, the subject is vitally interesting to students. Debating is now a purely College activity and is rising in favor. Finally, the team needs financial and especially moral support (by actual presence) if it is to wipe out the defeat received at New Haven last year...
...being waged for cleaner government here in Cambridge? For years Cambridge has been controlled by a corrupt Democratic "ring" and has gained the reputation of being one of the worst governed cities, in the country. This year a more determined effort than ever before is being made to defeat this "ring" and conditions appear to be favorable. The Citizens Party is planning to make a personal canvass of a certain portion of the voters the nights before election, Monday, March 8. To do this it will need help and it is asking all University men who will give...