Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third round saw G. P. Webber defeat Milton Singer '33 15-5, 15-12; J. R. Fetcher '33 defeated R. H. Goodwin '33, 20-19, 25-10; and Kirbride defeated Baxter...
...tomorrow afternoon. The eyes of the press, and through it, of the country, may be focussed on Cambridge; but for the two contestants, the days are gone when the football team rushed out in the guise of the College Militant. The fact that victory may be desirable, but that defeat does not necessarily blight the loser with shame, has gone through the stages of incredulity, to acceptance. With its acceptance has ceased meaningless antagonism between the universities. In its place stands an era of good feeling; and with this, the rivalry of Harvard and Yale has its new and true...
Indianapolis. The Republican party, hard-ridden by the Ku Klux Klan, stumbled and fell in defeat as for the first time in 16 years the city chose a Democratic mayor, Reginald Sullivan. In similar disrepute was the Klan-Republican alliance in many another Indiana municipality, including Senator James Eli Watson's own Rushville where Republicans were turned out, Democrats turned into office...
...eleven met defeat for the third time this fall when it lost to a superior Bradford-Durfee team, 2 to 0. The first year men were outclassed, and could do little against their more accurate opponents...
...defeat by the Yale Freshmen, in which the work of Parker and Crowley, Eli backs, was the chief factor, brought the season of the Harvard 1933 football team to a close Saturday...