Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...feel the greatest respect for those who have done their duty, who have gamely fought an up-hill fight, and though defeated, left no stone unturned by which they could ensure success. Then if we are defeated, don't explain, don't excuse it, but bear it like men, grimly and silently, and go into the struggle next time with more unflagging perseverance and a deeper determination. Yet victory is better than the most honorable defeat. Do not adopt the theory that it really doesn't matter whether we win or lose, for it does matter and it rests with...
...result of the Harvard-Princeton debate, though not unexpected, occasioned serious thought as to why Princeton with her Halls, and her supposedly superior advantages, should have again suffered defeat in this branch of intercollegiate contests. The following caitorial, which appeared in the Princetonian after the debate, expresses fully and fittingly the sentiment of the college in general...
...Harvard debaters we tender our congratulations. We admire and respect the institution whose representatives have never been defeated in this distinctly academic form of intercollegiate contests. No more gratifying prominence could be desired by any institution. Our wish is that Princeton may learn from Harvard's example and from her own defeat the secret of success in literary lines...
...reason that the result of this debate is unusually gratifying is that an extraordinary interest in debating has been developed this year at Princeton. Chagrined al the defeat her representatives met at the hands of Harvard last year, Princeton has this year been making the most strenuous efforts to win the debate, and her speakers were trained with the utmost care. In spite of all this Harvard is again victorious, and her record is still unblemished. We are justly proud of our debaters...
...Huidekoper '96 has the leading article in the last number of the United Service Magazine. It is entitled "Did Grouchy by disobedience of orders cause the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo...