Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While a wintry wind whistled through the arches of the Stadium yesterday afternoon, a crowd of about a thousand spectators saw the University lacrosse team defeat the British invaders by a 6 to 0 score. Gaining three goals in each of the 30-minute halves, Coach Lylecker's red-shirted stick men swept up and down the field and administered to the Oxford-Cambridge team its sixth defeat of the season...
Rebuttal. The Republican Senators labored furiously, not so much to prevent defeat of the measure, since that is deemed highly improbable, but to head off the Democrats from getting through a vote referring it back to the reporting committee for expert investigation. This proposal was the more feared because numerous gentlemen in both camps favor a long delay, to carry them past the November elections without the necessity of voting on the settlement, which is loaded with dynamite in some constituencies...
...over Oxford last fall, was in many ways the most notable forensic achievement of the year. Following this debate three triangular series with other teams in the League were held. The first resulted in victories over Wesleyan and Brown and the second in a win from Pennsylvania. The only defeat of the entire season was at the hands of Williams, through a default by the University team. The climax came two weeks ago in the victory over the brilliant Yale debaters...
...defects of the present system, even for the man who has his club, tend to defeat almost equally one of the prime essentials of education, namely, that one acquire as broad a knowledge of human nature as possible. It is quite right that the clubs exist, and it is natural that they should draw together men of kindred interests. This is an excellent feature of college life, as all will admit. But when there is no effective center of gravity larger than the club to draw men of different interests together, there is great danger that the clubs will lead...
...adverse decision of the Connecticut judiciary board in regard to the Chapman appeal for a new trial foreshadows the defeat of one of the most prolonged and stubborn defenses which has ever featured a criminal trial. Since the newly-discovered evidence on which the appeal was based had been held in reserve as their strongest point by the defense attorneys, its rejection means that Chapman's greatest hope has been lashed. Three stays of execution had been granted because of the mere technicality which grew out of Chapman's being a federal prisoner, and it was a curious...