Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England championship wrestling team of last year, the first Harvard group of grapplers ever to defeat Yale in the history of the sport in the University, has this year dwindled to only three men. These last year's lettermen, Captain Joseph Lifrak '29, J. H. Burns '30, and Nathanfel Warner '30, will form a nucleus around which the rest of the 1928-29 team will be moulded...
...well defined are the doctrines and the principles upon which it [the Democracy] is founded, that it has survived defeat after defeat!" The 14,500,000 popular votes for Smith were cited; also the change of less than 500,000 which, "spread around the country, would have altered the result." False note though this latter seemed-since only 137,501- more popular votes "spread around the country" would have given Hoover all the electoral votes-it did not spoil the main theme: "The Democratic party is a live, a vigorous and a forceful major minority party...
...suggestion was but a blunt, practical expression of an ideal often mouthed but seldom practised by Congressmen after a general election. But coming from whom it did, it led to reconsideration of two little-discussed features of the Democratic outlook. One feature, forgotten in the turmoil of the Smith defeat, was Vice President-Reject Robinson's continued presence in the Senate. With President-Reject Smith retiring to private life and Governor-Elect Roosevelt taking his place in New York, the party's official Number Two Man had been all but forgotten by commentators on the party...
...University soccer team, after holding one of the strongest Eli elevens that has played at Yale in recent years scoreless up to the last six minutes of play, went down to defeat...
...then in 1916 Harvard suffered its first defeat at the hands of the Blue since 1909. The score was 6 to 3. Harvard took the lead early in the game with a goal from the field. With the second period well under way Yale had the ball when one of the Blue backs fumbled in going through the line. It just eluded some of the Harvard backs, was recovered by Yale on the Crimson's 13 yard line, and then the Blue was just able to get across the goal for a touchdown. This was Houghton's farewell game...