Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen will only remember that Harvard base-ball stock is way above par this year and that it would be in the worst possible taste for them to do anything that would lower the value in the least, there is no reason why they should not only defeat some of the surrounding high schools, but also keep the Yale freshmen from their doubtless uncomfortable but nevertheless glorious place on the fence...
...victory of '89 in the light-weight wrestling in part compensated for their defeat by the champion tug-of-war team...
Clement was defeated in the preliminary rounds of the N. Y. Athletic Club meeting Wednesday night. Over training was the cause of his defeat...
...defeat the Columbia freshmen received at the hands of Harvard last year has not in the least discouraged them; on the contrary they are this year making greater efforts than ever before to have victory come to them, and thus gain some honor for the blue and white. They formerly rowed in the gymnasium belonging to the Columbia Grammar School; this, year, however, on account of the increased number trying for positions on the crew, they were forced to abandon their old quarters and look around for larger and more suitable accommodations. They have rented Wood's gymnasium...
...they must not be compulsory. In our day there is not that unanimity of feeling which makes the expression of the aspirations of all in a single form possible; what alone is sacred to one is wholly unmeaning to his neighbor. To make prayers compulsory, then, would in itself defeat their object, since they could not be for all an occasion of worship...