Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner by young men who enjoyed the exercise. This race of dilettantes is now extinct, and has given place to a more conscientious generation which realizes the true function of football in any well-conducted alma mater. For alma mater flourishes by victory on the gridiron, and droops after defeat. No alma mater can withstand prolonged unsuccess at football. The reverberations of humiliation in the Stadium or the Bowl are far-reaching. Attendance in classes on Egyptology, Cryptology and the Italian drama drops off. Scholarship standards quiver and collapse. Bright young men in middle western high schools hear from afar...
...past fortnight has witnessed a series of events which would have filled the minds of college students of a generation age with worry and dismay. Within two successive Saturdays each of the so-called Big Three has suffered defeat on the football field at the hands of what that same generation would have considered inferior colleges...
...Episcopal Church decided by a vote of 50-50 that it would continue to be the only important Protestant body unattached to the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. (A two-thirds vote was required to authorize uniting with the Federal Council.) This defeat of the famed Bishop Brent was a victory for the Anglo-Catholic party, which prides itself on the ecclesiastical tradition of the Episcopal Church in contrast with the ecclesiastically doubtful parentage of the Puritan and other Reformation-born sects. The argument publicly put forth is that union with the "sects" would widen the breach...
ever the brave lift of a spirit that struck strongest in the face of defeat .... a will that brooked no curbing...
...third time in as many starts the Freshman soccer team went down to defeat before a schoolboy eleven, when Worcester Academy downed the 1929 booters last Saturday...