Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...graves of your comrades, and your own, as you fall by the way in this long march to the common home of all men, whether soldiers or men of peace, we may well recall the undying memory of him who loved the flag of his country. He marched to defeat, but the heavenly powers turned his momentary disaster into final victory; and he was as ready to forgive his enemies as we are to forgive those who vainly sought to ruin the country that nurtured them...
...Harvard-Cornell boat race Saturday afternoon on the Charles river Cornell easily defeated the Harvard eight by six and a half lengths in the time of 10 minutes and 9 1-5s. Notwithstanding the evident superiority of the Cornell crew, Harvard's defeat was due to poor rowing. The men disregarded not only the stroke which they have been taught for the last two months, but even the elementary points of rowing...
...defeat was due rather to inability to make safe hits than to any superior work by the Yale pitcher. The Freshmen played a good fielding game and gave strong support to Lincoln, who was hit freely. The Freshmen's only run was scored in the second inning by McNeil on a base on balls, and Mercer's error. The Yale freshmen scored two runs in the third inning. Lang got a hit, stole second, and scored on Wendell's error. Madden got his base on balls, stole second, and came in on Stanley's two-base hit. In both...
...poorly played game on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon the Freshman baseball team was defeated by the Brown freshmen by a score of 7 to 4. Although the Harvard team ran bases well, weak batting and inexcusable errors were responsible for its defeat...
...University cricket team was yesterday defeated by the University of Pennsylvania in the last game of the schedule, by a score 152 to 99. Harvard's defeat was due to loose fielding. The bowling of Captain Taylor for Harvard, and of Keenan for Pennsylvania, was excellent, and the batting of both sides was good, Gummere and Smith excelling for the University team...