Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Continuation of the present Railroad Labor Board and defeat of the Howell-Barclay bill which would abolish...
Three men may have a large say today as to whether it is to be victory or defeat. They are Gehrke, Daley, and Zarakov, all of whom have been on the injury list for the past week or more. Up till now it has been largely problematical, whether this trio would be able to play, but today it seems safe to say that they will...
...York Times editorial, quoted in an adjacent column, says the graduate's emotions are responsible for his tyranny over dear old Alma Mater. This is especially true in athletics. If the football team wins a series of victories, the "old grad" is profuse with congratulations. If it meets defeat, every alumnus has his own pet theory of just why it happened. The coaches are to blame, or the team lacks fight, or the stands didn't give proper support. Whatever his theory, the graduate never falls to tell how much better it was done "in the good old days...
...undergraduate defeat is a serious matter. To the graduate, it is the grimmest of tragedy. The undergraduate has ample company in his misery. Everyone he meets commiserates the general misfortune, and his spirits are bound to rise in response to such universal sympathy. Not so the graduate. At the club, in the office, on the street, friend Smith from Yale, and Jones from Princeton and even Brown from some small Western college, triumph over him. They tease him, they heap ridicule upon him, and all in all, make his life miserable. Small wonder that his ago takes refuge in complaint...
...athletics are far from being all of college life, and the 34 to 0 defeat of Harvard by Princeton is not a terrible calamity to the University. But the utter spinelessness, the total lack of spirit in the student body, are straws that very clearly illustrate the way the Harvard wind is blowing...