Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...defeat of the Salisbury's ministry has caused much uneasiness among the "Anglomaniacs" in college...
...respect to her gymnasium and also in the situation of her athletic grounds. When it is brought forcibly to our notice that our opponents do not enjoy the same facilities which we enjoy in athletic work, the spirit which they have invariably shown in victory as well as in defeat, becomes still more worthy of our admiration. We sincerely trust that no efforts to further the enterprise, so happily inaugurated, will be spared, and that the efforts will lead to success. And in the near future when Yale may boast of her extraordinary athletic facilities we will look...
...constant and energetic. There is little need for us to remind eighty-nine of the treatment Harvard freshman nines have received in the past, and we sincerely hope that eighty-nine will break the record. Nothing but hard work will enable a freshman nine to defeat a Yale freshman nine, having in prospect a seat on the far-famed fence...
...against their will. It is true that both the Harvard University and freshman crews of last year beat Columbia badly, but they only did it after a year's work of the hardest kind, and not by loafing. As it is Columbia will probably have learned something from her defeat last year, and will put a faster crew than ever on the water, so that the freshmen have got to brace more than usual if they wish to win. If eighty-nine wants an example to follow, let her take last year's University crew, a crew which probably worked...
...experience furnished by the University of Pennsylvania, and, thus applied, I should concur in them. It would be utterly unwise to attempt to introduce the system in full operation at Harvard at once into the University. A foot-ball player here, in explaining to me the causes of the defeat of the University by another college team, said: 'their men, you know, are much larger than ours.' 'How so?' said I. 'What is the average age of your men at entrance?' 'Sixteen.' One has only to compare this, even allowing the number to have been a round one, with...