Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only thing left to do, according to the American mind, is to get a more efficient organization which will prevent such a catastrophe in the ture. I leave it to the reader to select his own illustration of this peculiar American tendency...
...though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only thing left to do, according to the American mind, is to get a more efficient organization which will prevent such a catastrophe in the ture. I leave it to the reader to select his own illustration of this peculiar American tendency...
...Harvard-Yale contest of any kind scorns introduction. Even when Yale worsts the University at chess in the seclusion of a New York hotel, the defeat is mourned by many who do not know a pawn from a rook. No one need be urged to attend the hockey game tonight; but a reminder that the contest is not yet won, and that whole-heared support from the University is essential, is not amiss...
That is one side of debating--the value to the man. The value to the University is worth considering also. Should Harvard feel less ashamed of losing a debate than a ball game? If men come to College to learn baseball or football, and that alone, an athletic defeat would rightly bring greater chagrin. But--the young men who sneer at Phi Beta Kappa and other scholarly achievements to the contrary notwithstanding -- one comes to College to improve one's mind, not one's batting eye. So a defeat in debating--since it is a contest of minds.--should...
...University's goal, outskated the Princeton men and scored an easy goal. The game was well-played and hard-fought and while it decisively spoiled Princeton's chances for the 1915 championship, it also showed that the University will have to make marked improvement in order to defeat the strong Yale seven next Saturday...