Word: defeatism
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...Machcinski will probably be on the hill for the Elis. The curve-balling righthander has been Coach Jeff Sawyer's top hurler all year, despite his 3-2 loss to Princeton for the Blue's only defeat...
This afternoon Captain Todd's men will be trying to end exactly one decade of Green predominance on the baseball field, and Coach Mitchell, whose 1916 squad was the last to administer defeat to a Dartmouth team, will be striving to direct his nine to a repetition of the victory of ten years ago. The invaders, however will present a powerful line-up containing six veterans with a reputation for hard hitting. Last year the University went into the ninth inning of its game with Dartmouth, leading by one run. With two men out and runners on first and second...
...government, education, religion, and society can not be done with the emotions or with eloquent outbursts of feeling, but must be done by competent, fit men and women if industry is to be humanized, if education is to train the spirit, if Democracy is not to go down in defeat, we need not merely conspicuous statesmen and leaders, but ranks upon ranks of common people in every community with mental and moral preparedness...
...discuss as well as to listen. In our seminaries they sit around a table in high intellectual companionship with the advanced student that we call the professor. In the laboratory the student with his own hands and eyes and brain must find out th truth or retire in defeat. Slowly we are learning that the only training that lasts is selftraining, and that unless the student educates himself, his remains forever a closed and darkened mind...
...always he "it". And when sometimes due to the heat and the hatred of always losing out in whimsy the student suggests something of the nature of a recent report on Browning and an ailment more chronic than literarily categorized it seems only fair that the professor admit defeat...