Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a week during which several of the Crimson players were sidelined due to illness, Harvard (17-6, 11-0 Ivy) still managed to defeat Penn (6-16, 2-8), 70-60, and Princeton...
...Crimson can clinch a share of the Ivy League title with a victory on Friday. A Harvard win over Yale coupled with a Dartmouth defeat of Brown would give the title to Harvard alone. However, it is likely that Brown will defeat Dartmouth on Friday night setting up a championship showdown the following evening...
...better to remember or to forget? Forgetting--even without its sainted better half, forgiveness--is sometimes the only route to sanity. If only the Balkans, for example, could be enfogged by a massive forgetting. As it is, every generation of Serbs remembers, as if it were last Saturday, their defeat by the Turks at the Battle of Kosovo in the year 1389. The result has been centuries of self-renewing reciprocal atrocity between Serbs and Muslims. Massacre is the Balkan national flower...
...only meeting this season, Harvard and St. Lawrence skated to a 3-3 stalemate at Bright Hockey Center, while Clarkson limped away from Cambridge with a 5-4 defeat...
...winning the Howe Cup again this weekend, the Crimson wrapped up its fifth straight national championship, an unprecedented mark. The Crimson dominated its early competition, but was more impressive in its 5-4 defeat of rival Princeton in the finals...