Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Whether you print this or not, I beg you to set me right, in advance of my suggestions. What value there may be in them is open to question. But there can be no question as to where I stand regarding our New London lustrum of mortifying defeat...
...crew. If this is done faithfully we shall hear no more men talking about now tired they are of training, and shall see none of that listless work which either on the weights or in the boat is so discouraging to a coach and which always results in defeat...
...best sentiment of every Harvard man. He assured the men that whether they won or lost, their honest efforts would be appreciated by the graduates of Harvard. Above all he assured them that the enthusiasm of Harvard men in New York does not depend on victories or defeats for its favor, but on the steadiness and manliness with which the name of the university is upheld. They can bear every honest defeat with equanimity and greet with heartfelt joy success in any possible direction...
...Harvard's first interest, and it is not snobbish either, is in all branches of athletics to defeat Yale. This is certain to become still more the fact as time goes on and college athletics increase to such an extent that it will be impossible to arrange leagues large enough to settle definitely the "championship,"- a worthless tide at the best. It is not likely that Harvard will ever figure in intercoll grate leagues again; there seems to be a general sentiment again it among both students and the Faculty. But the writer in The Weeks Sport expects...
Last night the dinner given in honor of the team that beat Yale and of the second eleven which proved such an important factor in that defeat, took place. At quarter before 8 o'clock the great dining room of the RevereHouse, decorated with Harvard banners, was filled with three hundred men waiting for the team to come in. The band played Fair Harvard as Neal Rantoul '92 escorted Captain Cumnock to his seat of honor on the right of the president of the dinner, Moses Williams, Jr., '91. The team followed and took seats at the head...