Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo due to Grouchy's disobedience of orders...
...learned that the members of the last season's football team have been united in petitioning the Faculty to consent to a game with Pennsylvania next fall. This action was taken at the instance of Capt. Lea, who is anxious to have an opportunity of offsetting the defeat of Princeton by Pennsylvania at Trenton last fall...
...interesting to see how thoroughly awakened Yale is to her need for improvement in the art of debate. The last contest with Harvard has apparently made defeat do longer endurable, and every effort is being made to provide such training as may prevent its recurrence. In these efforts both faculty and students are united. The students are anxious to remove what they now begin to consider the disgrace of repeated defeats, while the Faculty seek to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education. Their latest move has been a particular request...
...reputation of our University is to be sustained we must have the best material to meet these teams and defeat them. An excellent start has been made, and a number of good men are out daily, practicing and learning to handle the sticks; but many other stalwart, active men should join the squads and try for the team, which is as yet entirely unformed. Our 'varsity and second lacrosse teams should be composed of the best men in college, and Captain Leighton would be very glad to have any one interested join the squads and begin training...
Alexander II made himself leader of the movement for the emancipation of the slaves. All that was now lacking was an impulse, which came through the defeat of the Russians in Crimea; the losses around Sebastopol; and the bankruptcy of the empire. Committees were appointed to decide upon reforms and on February 16, 1861, the decree was promulgated. It provided that the peasants were to have all the rights of free cultivators; nobles were to give each peasant between twenty and thirty acres of land, and the government was to remunerate the nobles. The peasants were to repay the government...