Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the University crews invade New York State, the 150-pound eight and still unnamed Third University boat will spend the week end in Philadelphia, taking part in the American Henley. The Crimson lightweights may put up a close race, for the defeat they suffered Saturday was not a bad one. DeNormandie was stroking his first race, and the crew, which kept up well for about a mile, found the pace a bit too hot near the finish. The eight should do better at Philadelphia...
...Publisher, he predicted the coming of "the 100-page daily newspaper-magazine" in less than ten years. Said he: "All the mechanical problems connected with issuing such a daily giant are solved. . . . In the battle between the newspaper and the weekly or monthly magazine, the magazine has already suffered defeat. The magazine of today is merely an agreeable survivor of the past. . . . Besides, more and more advertisable things are ever being created for the daily newspaper, metamorphosing it into a sort of magic bazaar filled with purchasable wonders...
...Isolt, and of her recapture by King Mark, and Mark's defeat by her pale steadfastness, and Tristram's last visit to her, when they are slain by crawling Andred without Mark's command, so that the world is emptied for everyone, bringing the tragic peace that Isolt the darker had predicted ? enough is told to trouble the reader greatly though the sense sometimes becomes so rarefied that one welcomes the voice of King Howel, kind father of Isolt the whiter, saying: "You are not going on always with a ghost for company until...
...University team will be composed of J. Whitbeck, Gordon, Lenhart, B. Whitbeck, Appleton, and Thompson in the order given. The Crimson tennis team has been successful in almost all of its encounters this spring, an 8 to 1 defeat at the hands of Williams being the only set-back it has suffered in college ranks...
...Harvard Superiority in fail minor sports for the past two years is offset by this year's 12 to 7 defeat in football. In 1926 the Crimson and Blue elevens fought up and down the Stadium to a scoreless tie, but in the Bowl last fall two deadly accurate field goals by Wadsworth and Bunnell spelled downfall for the Harvard team...