Word: defeats
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...reason for the Sophomore team's defeat was its lack of unity. The Freshmen showed the best team work they have had so far and succeeded in making one point in each half. The score would very probably have been larger, but for the excellent playing of Ivy at goal...
...Freshman hockey team was defeated by Andover yesterday afternoon by the score of 4 to 0. The slow work and inaccurate shooting of the Freshman forwards and the excellent goal keeping ofHeckscher ofAndover account for the defeat. For Harvard the best work was done by Aertsen and Sard...
Various statements that have been made from time to time concerning the effect of success or failure in athletic sports on the resort to colleges have induced President Eliot to prepare tables of statistics giving the actual results, in terms of victory and defeat, of athletic contests between Harvard and Yale and between Yale and Princeton in each of the last ten years, and the registration of students in the subsequent academic years corresponding therewith. In commenting on the tables. President Eliot says: "One might suppose that the most immediate effect of victory or defeat in athletic sports would appear...
...sports, has gained in the ten years a much smaller percentage than Princeton, so far as the college and scientific school freshman classes are concerned. In this table, however, the fluctuations in the size of the freshman classes correspond rather better with the fluctuations of victory and defeat than they do in the Harvard-Yale table. The figures for the scientific schools of Yale and Princeton cannot well be compared, because in 1894 the Sheffield Scientific School lost numbers temporarily on account of a distinct increase in its requirements for admission; and during the next three years the Princeton school...
...Defeat of Tammany," by William French Wilbour '96, is an interesting sketch of some features of political campaigning in New York during the past autumn. "'Soapy' Smith," by B. Wendell, Jr., and "The Hoboes' Congress," by L. M. Crosbie, are the two stories of the issue. Neither one has enough incident and movement to make it especially interesting. "A Plea for the Rush," by J. Willard Helburn, is, in effect, reply to Professor Shaler's article against the rush, which was printed by the Monthly in November...