Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to protest against some of the statements made in your editorial of May 4, concerning the Yale debate, for the simple reason that in your anxiety to explain satisfactorily the cause of the defeat you have disregarded the truth of the matter...
...before, and it is therefore doubly disappointing that they should have failed in the present instance. We will not say that careful preparation on this point would have won us the debate with Yale; we will say that it would have gone far to lessen the discredit of the defeat...
This is the lesson that our first defeat in debating can teach us, and if we refuse to profit by it, our prestige in debate before very long will be gone...
Harvard's defeat in the debate at New Haven last evening is a bitter disappointment. It was earnestly hoped that the long line of victories would be kept intact; but since it is broken there is no need of losing heart. The one good that can be derived from this defeat is a more determined effort to win the next debate...
...past week at Yale has been marked by a great deal of activity in all athletic branches. Since the defeat of the nine by Williams a week ago, the men have been kept at hard practice and have done such good work that the defeat by Brown, Saturday, was quite unexpected. The team is not in as good form as it should be at this time of year, the fielding being very uncertain, and weakness shown at first base and shortstop...