Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even granting the Widener authorities to be acting within their rights, the unfortunate effect of a successful censorship is to defeat its own purpose. Information withheld with the nursing of lips seems invariably to attain an unjustified rapacity of circulation. Filth which is innocuous on the printed page becomes effective through being spread by word of mouth. The excitement aroused by censorship creates a volume of curiosity far greater than the salacious matter would of itself admit. The very effectiveness of censorship destroys its intended effect...
...score when the final whistle blew ending the game with the Yale Freshman team on Soldiers Field Saturday. Captain Bell's eleven outplayed the Elis throughout, but the failure to produce a scoring punch when deep in the Yale territory tells the tale of the Crimson's defeat...
Princeton, N. J., Nov. 15, 1924. As the throngs of disappointed Tiger rooters filed out of Balmer Stadium Saturday after witnessing the defeat of one of the strongest combinations Nassau has had in many years, they had but one hope, which was that Harvard would tie the Big Three championship next Saturday. But outside the Stadium gates they met countless newsboys shouting, "Brown beats Harvard. Read about the Crimson defeat...
...could Captain Greenough's team ever defeat, such a combination as this? The answer to the question is not lacking. The Nassau combination which had torn the grass off in the Stadium a week ago, slipped and floundered vainly on its own sod. Gone was the vicious charge; gone was the impregnable defense: the Tiger had become a purring kitten...
...excuses to offer. Brown's victory was clear cut and decisive. That page in the record is closed. There remains but one more entry in this season's gridiron account book. A victory over Yale, according to the conventional University view, will make any season successful. Another defeat will imprint the autumn of 1924 indelibly as the most disastrous in Harvard football annals...