Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gymnasium and see if he is not good for something. Let him not be discouraged; nothing is accomplished without practice. If every man did his duty, and trained faithfully for that branch of athletics for which he is fitted, we should have no reason to fear defeat from any opponent...
...should I do anything more for the college? Why should I try to advance the cause of athletics? I shall not be working for my friends, but only for my enemies." Thus he either drops out of athletics, or goes about his duty in a heartless way, which insures defeat...
...reader. As we look back over the field and consider what has been accomplished this fall, we can see how true at times, is that saying, "Things must grow worse before they can be better." In the spring of 1886 affairs were pretty bad, but it needed the athletic defeats of that season and of last year to enable us to comprehend the complete degeneracy of the artificial system which was ruling us. Last June was the culmination of the bad effects of that system. At the opening of college this fall there was latent a real determination to alone...
...action of the faculty in forbidding the base-ball men to practice with professional teams, and there is little indicatian that we ever shall see them. Under the present prohibition, we lose the manifest good which would result from contesting with our superiors, and gain nothing in return. We defeat the duffers at Marblehead twenty runs to two, and find in our games with Yale that there is danger of a similar score-only reversed. Agitation may effect something in this matter; silence surely cannot...
...friends of these contests in both universities have been hoping for a time when such a result could be properly accomplished, without exposing one or the other college to the charge of escaping from a superior. Two years ago a race was lost at New London to Columbia. The defeat was retrieved last year. Since the old fifteen-men foot-ball was abandoned, in which Harvard had been fairly successful, and the adoption in 1882 of the present American game, Harvard, until the present season, has not put forth her energies to the fullest extent on the foot-ball field...