Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evincing a complete recovery from their defeat at Princeton a week ago last Saturday, the University lacrosse twelve held the powerful Syracuse team to a 3 to 0 score on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. Syracuse, last year's eastern champion, is ranked as the strongest team in the east again this year...
...green sod it stood in. He kept bringing in the sweep of Irish history through the ancient family trees-old kings and warriors and battles from Queen Maeve in the day of giants to tart Timothy Healy, and the Fenian men humming the "Shan Van Voght," the Song of Defeat, which is through the book like a soft threat...
...annual dual meeting with the Green athletes and the Hanover first-year baseball team lost a 10 to 4 verdict to the Freshman nine. At the same time the Crimson lacrosse team downed the Hanoverians. In the remainder of the baseball program Pennsylvania retaliated for last week's defeat at the hands of the University diamond squad by squeezing out a tight 2 to 1 victory against the pitching of Puffer, and the University Second team took the measure of Cushing Academy by an 11 to 7 count...
...runs to two at the start of the sixth frame, when they practically sewed up their twelfth straight triumph in five years at the expense of the University, on misplays by Zarakov and a bad break in the outfield. The Freshmen wiped out some of the sting of this defeat by trouncing the Holy Cross first-year aggregation by a decisive 6 to 1 count. The Seconds bowed to the Brown 1929 squad by a 3 to 1 score...
...analysis of the ballots cast offers little further explanation of the unexpected defeat of the two proposals made in the Student Council report. The Seniors voted slightly in favor of the colleges plan. The only other class which is at present living as a unit, the Freshman, showed an even break, as many voting for it as against it. The Sophomores and Juniors, however, voted heavily against any division such as that indicated on the ballot...