Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...result, in spite of all his able efforts, was defeat at the hands of both Yale and Princeton. A like outcome of the season this year would be most discouraging. Harvard has long looked to baseball as a reliable factor in her athletic successes, and this year she should not look in vain. We have the captain: the meeting today must give him plenty of material with which to work...
...Yale Corporation, writes of the Yale college discipline: "The college discipline takes account of, and trusts, the honor and manliness of the students. Instructors and students meet on a common ground of confidence and of scholarly ambition. Athletics have their place. They encourage manliness, pluck, perseverance, honor, self-control. Defeat on the field is to be borne in as manly a way as victory. Yale is taught never to dishonor itself in defeat. It is always to assume victory. It puts high a generous heroism, a magnanimous appreciation of others...
...might be said that a protest against the name would have come in better grace before, rather than after the defeat by Brown. We do not think so. The University at large cares very little about the name of a scrub team so long as it limits itself to playing unimportant teams. But when a few men who call themselves the University team play against the accredited representatives of another college and the impression is given to the public that the contest is between the two colleges, the University has a right to demand that the team which bears...
Yale's fifth successive defeat in joint debate with Harvard was extremely discouraging to all who wish to see this university come to the front in oratory. A large majority of the undergraduates here, however, are not interested in debate. They do not realize its importance. The facilities here for the acquirement of forensic training are admittedly very much inferior to those enjoyed at Cambridge, and it is now generally recognized at Yale that a beginning must be made higher up; that the deficiency in the college curriculum must be remddied...
...work will excite this year among all Harvard men. Last year it was the general impression among those who knew, that our material in Cambridge would make a team that was more than a match for Yale, but when we came to the trial of our strength we met defeat by a narrow margin...