Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Corrigan of Springfield carried individual honors in the Freshman meet. He led O'Neil by four seconds, his time being 19 minutes flat, but O'Neil broke a shoe-lace in the last half-mile and this was largely responsible for his defeat. The second Springfield man took fifth place and then after a long string of Crimson runners, three Springfield men took twelfth, thirteenth, and fifteenth...
...goal from the field the football world sat up and took notice of the new strategy. A little later in the same game, when the Crimson was hard pressed, another specialist was sent to the rescue, and Henry Sprague literally kicked his team out of the impending shadow of defeat...
...await the opening whistle at 2 o'clock this afternoon with a common slogan. "Even the post war series" is their demand to Captain Greenough's eleven. Over 20,000 Tiger rooters have collected from various parts of the country with the spirit of revenge for the 5-0 defeat administered them at the Palmer Stadium last fall...
Coach C. L. Nunneker '22, coach of this fall's team and former University lacrosse player, was not discouraged by the defeat, and stated that the material is the best in years. Between 35 and 40 men have reported for practice daily throughout the fall...
...decisive defeat of Senator La Folette does not sound the death knell of progressivism in America, in the opinion of Professor Munro. He did not consider that the Progressives could continue in existence as a separate party with much success. "But the probability is that one or the other of the old parties, or possibly both will gradually become more progressive in their principles, he went on to state. "A formal coalition of the La Folette-Wheeler supporters with the Democrats is about as possible as for the 'solid South' to go Republican...