Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...approach through the barricade on the front seats. They tried to get in at the rear and at the side doors of the stage, but they met freshmen at every point. The freshmen were too numerous, and the sophomores were forced to swallow their indignation and endure their defeat like men. Then the freshmen, at the conclusion of the performance, marched up Chapel street 200 strong, defying the Sheff. juniors and Academy sophomores. But the matter will not end here. The sophomores and the Sheff. juniors will find some way, they declare, to rebuke the audacity of the freshmen...
...said in my last paper, the Harvard nine, confident of success, "went gaily to the fray" like the Knights of Old whom they so much resembled. Their defeat and humiliation followed, and with heavy hearts they began to labor anew...
...need of systematic practice," says the Advocate, "was felt at first. Harvard was the first college to take up base-ball and consequently easily distanced her sister colleges, and also wrested the championship from the Lowell Club in the first attempt. Defeat taught the vanquished the necessity of discipline. The Williams College nine was under the care of two professional trainers for several weeks before the match at Worcester, and the powerful batting of the Lowell nine was the result of faithful attendance at the gymnasium last winter. Success on the other hand blinded the Harvard nine to the necessity...
...last year's race, - I hear some one saying. Are we responsible for that? are the conditions of wind and tide at New London in Harvard's power? Yale had as fair a chance as was possible with three boats in the race. Harvard gave her an opportunity to defeat our crew; Yale failed; must we keep giving her opportunities...
...picked team from the Shooting Club visited Dedham Saturday afternoon and administered another defeat to their old antagonists, the Dedham Gun Club. The cold and the dazzling sunlight on the snow made good shooting almost an impossibility. The shooting was very even during the first two rounds. At the end of the first Dedham led by one point, and at the close of the second the score was exactly even. Harvard then made a great brace, and in the third and fourth rounds succeeded in scoring eighteen points more than their opponents. The total score was: Harvard, 64; Dedham...