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...though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only thing left to do, according to the American mind, is to get a more efficient organization which will prevent such a catastrophe in the ture. I leave it to the reader to select his own illustration of this peculiar American tendency...
...should Harvard defeat Quinnipiac and continue to the second round, the competition would become somewhat stiffer. No. 30 Notre Dame (15-8, 3-2 Big East) has won five of its last six matches, and No. 19 Tulane (18-5, 6-0 Conference USA) has not lost since March 13, winning its last nine...
...with just about any tough loss, what made the women’s lacrosse team’s 10-9 defeat yesterday at the hands of Cornell so heartbreaking was the fact that the game was winnable the whole way through...
...Harvard men’s lightweight crew bested both No. 4 Yale and No. 6 Princeton on Lake Carnegie in its final dual of the season to retain the Goldthwait Cup, continuing on its road to recovery following a heartbreaking defeat at the hands of No. 1 Navy just one weekend ago. After being nipped by the Midshipmen last year, the Crimson similarly defeated its other Big Three rivals...
Despite the defeat of the proposal to make the fee mandatory, Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 said he was happy with the results of the referendum...