Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Saturday the New Bedfords sustained a defeat at the hands of our Nine by the score of 14 to 4. Sawyer played second base, owing to Latham's absence; his catches and stops were very fine, but his throwing showed lack of practice. Wright's fine playing on first base saved Sawyer several deserved errors. Ernst, Tyng, Holden, and Howe led at the bat. Bradley, the famous pitcher of the Chicago nine, was batted all over the field, six runs being earned off of his pitching...
...return game with the New Bedfords was played in Fall River on Tuesday, April 16, and resulted in Harvard's first defeat. Our Nine played a nearly perfect fielding game, but were unable to master Bradley's new delivery, his previous defeat teaching him that his old delivery was not the right kind to oppose to Harvard's batsmen. The game was well contested through eight innings; in the ninth two earned runs were made by the New Bedfords. The injury which Ernst received in the Live Oak game rendered him very lame, and had a natural effect...
...cannot exist together, for the marks defeat the very object of the electives. If a foreign system of education be imported, the machinery that makes its working possible must be imported...
Destruction compliment defeat...
...should really like to know how to "compliment defeat with destruction...