Word: defeatingly
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...disappointing Ivy season for the Crimson. The Ivy League was as tough as it ever had been this season, with four teams presently among the top 13 in the country. Harvard was competitive with all the top-ranked opposition it faced, most notably a last-second 10-9 defeat to No. 13 Yale. The Crimson challenged eventual Ivy co-champions, No. 5 Princeton and No. 6 Dartmouth, during their meetings this season. Against the Big Green, the Crimson did not trail until the final minute of the first half. Harvard’s only Ivy win was against Columbia...
Maryland beat the Crimson, 21-8, last season, and by the score of 21-3 the year before that. The Crimson expects a more respectable result this time around, seeing as Harvard kept close with Princeton in a 14-9 defeat this season, and the Terrapins beat Princeton by just one goal last week...
...aftermath of my team’s defeat, I am beginning to wonder if the red-in-tooth-and-claw competition offered by Assassin is really such a good thing after...
...angry that we lost—intensely, passionately angry. This is understandable, I suppose, up to a point. But the strength of my emotional response to this defeat seems wildly out of proportion to the actual significance of the game. After all, as countless people (most of them female) have pointed out, it’s really rather silly, isn’t it? All that running around with nerf guns and such, and all that pointless paranoia—shouldn’t I be happy to be done with...
...even with the bitter taste of defeat stinging my gorge, I still think that everyone should play Assassin—for the thrills, the entertainment and the all-too-rare intoxication that comes with knowing that people are out there somewhere waiting to kill...