Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...formation of a tug-of-war team. Yale has had hers at practise several days. Our team had such an easy time last year that the men would be apt to be over confident as to the result this year. Hard, steady work however, is necessary to defeat the teams Lehigh and Yale will put in the field, and the team cannot begin work too soon...
...thereby encourage the candidates to do their best for themselves and for the college, Then if we win we can take some of the credit of victory to ourselves; if we lose, we can feel that we deserved to lose, that we were outplayed. There is no disgrace in defeat if every effort has been made to secure victory...
...defeat of Hanlan, the oarsman by Beach of Australia, last Saturday, was a great surprise to the ex-champion's friends...
Every autumn hears a wail go up over the degeneration of Harvard sports. Last year, when we returned from the summer vacation, humiliated by defeat, and almost in despair at our ill success, we vowed unutterable vows in our determination for a reform. We all know the result. We can even now only look forward with fear and trembling for the further results. But it is useless to sit still and bemoan the past, if we have in our hands the means of regeneration. It is very evident that the material of our athletic teams must be improved. The best...
...these were among the foot ball men, but with the departure of Hurd, and the disabling of Fargo, the class is left with almost untried men to form its nine. However, with good, hard, steady work, there is no reason why '88 should not have a nine able to defeat Yale next May; and the more they follow Mr. Winslow's advice, and the harder, and more faithfully they work, so much the more credit they will reflect on their class, and on the college...