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...went to the Naval War College at Newport, and became a scholar there for two years. He left there to take command instead of applying a remedy. It will mean aid and assistance for our enemies instead of their destruction and downfall. It will mean defeat in war instead of victory...
...that he had protested to Mr. Roosevelt (in 1902) because his superior officers would not listen to him as he cried: "The protection and armament of even our most recent battleships are glaringly inferior to those of our possible enemies. . . . One or more of our ships would suffer humiliating defeat at the hands of an equal number of ene-of the Torpedo-Boat Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet. In 1916 he became Commander of the Nevada, then...
Four straight years of defeat by the Blue, however, there being no game in 1888, seems to have had an effect on the Harvard undergraduates, for in the fall of 1889, enthusiasm, ran high at a mass meeting when withdrawal from the Association was again voted and carried out. This time, however, the Yale game was continued, and the year 1890 saw the Crimson eleven finishing its season in a blaze of glory, winning 12 to 6 from one of the strongest teams of Yale history. A. J. Cumnock '91 was the Crimson leader...
...After the game, one of the coaches remarked that he was sorry to hear of our defeat, because that only made his job more difficult. He showed much sounder judgment. Easy competition is a good way to get an offense working smoothly, but it does not show whether a team has got the fight. Any overconfidence that the Harvard team may have had is gone and they have learned what it is to have a well drilled organization opposite them. When they go onto the field against Dartmouth, they will know that the college is back of them...
...University soccer eleven, in the first of the week-end tussles against Dartmouth, went down to defeat before the invaders in a closely contested match on Soldiers Field yesterday. The final score, 5-1, gives no linking of the closeness of the conflict, almost half the play taking place in the near vicinity of the Green goal. Harvard's shooting was wild, and this together with Captain Forest's fine work in the Dartmouth Cage, kept the University score down...