Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...failure. Our freshman nine has been laughed at, encouraged and implored, by turns, to vanquish Yale, but all to no purpose. Something must be done, and that before the coming game. Why not make the admission of the freshman class to the tree on class day conditional on their defeat of Yale? When all other means fail, a direct appeal to their own interest like this may perhaps affect them...
...Every spring the freshman nine is a subject of much discussion in the college papers. Last year, it was proposed to drop the annual series with Yale. As unpleasant as it would be for us to acknowledge, by such an action, that it is impossible for Harvard freshmen to defeat the Yale freshmen, the feeling is getting stronger each year that this will have to be done if some change is not made in the general management. Many of the points in which Yale has the advantage over our freshmen were mentioned by your correspondent of a few weeks...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Every one in college feels the importance of having the freshman nine defeat Yale this year. The continued series of defeats has made it almost an assured thing that we will always lose the freshman nine defeat Yale this year. The continued series of defeats has made it almost an assured thing that we will always lose the freshman game. Of course there are many reasons why the Yale freshmen defeat us annually. They commence playing early in the fall, and, as the weather in New Haven permits it, they play later. In the fall they also...
...present, in another column, a very opportune communication in reference to the freshman nine. Hitherto, too little attention has been paid to the success of this nine in its contests with the Yale freshmen. As the writer of the article says, "defeat has been regarded as a foregone conclusion which it is useless to endeavor to frustrate." It does seem very strange that our freshmen should so often seemingly accede to the desires of the Yale nine and play the first game at New Haven. The advantage thus given is incalculable. Every one can recognize the benefit resulting...
...years lost the fence, and it is earnestly to be hoped that '85 will keep up the prestige of the former class, and obtain the coveted honor at the first opportunity offered. - [News.] It is too bad that our freshmen have no fence to win in case they defeat the Yale freshmen. What an incentive to hard work such a "coveted honor" would...