Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...varsi y team. It is true, it is unpleasant, it is ominous even, if you will, but it by no means follows that we are going to be beaten at Springfield. What Harvard men need to remember just at present is that the way to make such a defeat sure is to croak, to be downcast, to fret and worry over reverses - for we call the scores against us reverses. The spirit of all of us must be bright, hopeful; else the influence upon the team will be disastrous; which the recent games are not. Let there be no easy...
...first sight one is led to believe that the small number of men who answered Captain Vail' s call for crew candidates Signifies a falling off in boating interests in the university, or perhaps a state of discouragement arising from our defeat by Yale last July. If, after all the efforts which have been devoted toward raising our standard in rowing during the past years, any such spirit as this should find a hold in the minds of college men, it certainly would be unworthy of them as Harvard under-graduates and disgraceful to them as men of courage. Defeat...
...cannot bring too strongly before the college the present condition of the 'varsity crew and its outlook for the future. Last year we suffered a crushing defeat; but that is in the past and to-day we must lay the determination to retrieve ourselves. But the crew is by no means made up and there are several vacancies which must be filled and for which the strongest call is made on men. There are good strong able-bodied men among us who have taken no step toward trying for the crew. These men are needed and badly needed. The captain...
...first game Harvard suffered her worst defeat at the hands of Yale in base ball...
Narrowness of our defeat blinded us temporarily, but there is no longer a question but that we wish and need to avail ourselves of the same assistance that has so much aided foot ball interests during the past two seasons...