Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fleer to insinuate that Harvard's defeat due to "crude and obvious" unfairness on the part of the judge I unhesitatingly call bad--very bad--sportsmanship. Truly yours Francis Rogers...
...University basketball team struck its second straight snag of the season when it met defeat at the hands of Connecticut Agricultural School by the close margin of 25 to 24 in the fifth game of the season at the Hemenway Gymnasium Saturday night...
...Rauh, were ineffective, and even these two failed to put over their customary number of tallies, Leekley and Jones failed to score. Failure to turn effective passes into goals has been one of the greatest difficulties of the Crimson five this year, and this factor accounts largely for the defeat on Saturday night. The foul shooting was also weak. The bright spot in the University play was the work of Malick, who scored five baskets from the floor from his post on the defense...
Mayhap the universities of Germany have gained more from the war than they have lost. For with the natural poverty of a pation in defeat, there has come a desire for practical knowledge given vent to in the tremendous of "bread" courses. Doubtless the German universities have torn a leaf from the merits of the American Business College. But also the have torn foreign appreciation for abstract learning which is so scarce in America. It is hard to conceive of a field more attractive to scholar and student alike, crowded as it is with thoughts new and old, with precepts...
...Harding, brother of the Crimson spare, the Tigers have a capable pivot man, who promises to keep both Chase and Scott, University centers, busy tonight. Harding was captain of the Princeton Freshmen last year, and scored against Yale in Princeton's surprising defeat of the Elis, two weeks...