Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cannot deny that there is a certain force in the communication from "Ninety-Four," which we publish this morning. The criticism which it directs toward those who are always making excuses for defeat is put none too strongly. The writer, however, fails to distinguish between the spirit which characterizes the excuse makers and that of those who, while feeling keenly and bitterly the humiliation which defeat brings just because it is defeat, cannot refrain from expressing their appreciation of the men who, as they sincerely think, "did the best they could," "played a sandy, up-hill game" and "played like...
...little of your space, I should like to make a suggestion. We are too much given to coddling our defeated athletes. This is because we are used to defeat, and take it as a matter of course. But it will never win a football match. We should make a decided difference between a victory and a defeat and in our attitude towards the players who contributed to each. There is altogether too much nonsense in the annual consolation that "they did the best they could," "they played a sandy, up-hill game," "they played like gentlemen, anyway." Why, many enthusiasts...
...undergraduates could know the feeling toward Harvard which exists down town among men who didn't go to college. Her name coupled with athletics is a laughing-stock. What is worse, owing to the present prominence of athletics, the name of Harvard as a university, from constant association with defeat, is loosing its reputation among a number of men, who, not graduates themselves, have sons who will soon be old enough for college...
...hearted policy toward the players themselves. I have had some small athletic experience, and know that if they have the right stuff in them, it will do them good. We want the spirit which characterized the coaching after the Yale game two years ago, which resulted in the overwhelming defeat of Pennsylvania. We want more of the kind that followed the Princeton game this year. It may hurt the feelings of eleven men to be cursed out after a defeat, but not as much as it aggravates eleven hundred men constantly to hear the name of their Alma Mater held...
Other articles of interest are A New England Woodpile, an outdoor sketch, by Rowland E. Robinson; The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, by W. F. Tilton; An Idler on Missionary Ridge, a Tennessee sketch, by Bradford Torrey; Being a Typewriter, a discussion of the relation of the machine to literature, by Lucy C. Bull; Notes from a Traveling Diary, a study of the new Japan, by Lafcadio Hearn; and To a Friend in Politics, an anonymous letter...