Word: lose
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...purification of Harvard athletics, regardless of the advantages her adversaries might gain by them. As a result Harvard has to elect a substitute to captain her baseball team and her crew is seriously handicapped. But what of that? The victory is Harvard's, whether she win or lose, for she has taken a higher stand and bound herself to a loftier standard which is too genuinely severe in its results to suggest the least artificiality or selfishness...
...that this spirit has shown its efficiency is in bringing us freedom. Not very long ago when scholars realized that they were in the wrong they were afraid to admit it for fear of losing their influence. Even the universities were often afraid of new learning and the discoveries of science, because, if these became generally known they might lose the respect of the people. Governments were afraid to have people know their rights because if they had known them the ruling powers might have been overturned. But now the great endeavor of all men is that every one should...
...University of Pennsylvania will have seven of her last year's baseball team with whom to begin practice in the spring. They are Hollister, Reese, Thomas, Boswell, Contrell, Coogan, and Goeckel. She will lose, however, two of her best men in Thompson, captain of last year's team, and Bayne, who for two years held the position of pitcher, and was one of the best batters in the University...
...PEDDIE'S SPEECH.John Wayland Peddie was the first speaker for Yale. He said that history is replete with illustrations of the value of independent action in politics; but unfortunately nowadays men are losing their independence, and society its interest in their individuality. The tendency of the time is heedlessness to man as man: it loves to think of him as part of a party, and so he loses himself in a party politics. He could not lose himself in a worse place. It would be an appalling sight if all our party politicians for the past ten years could...
...three speakers, however, the greater share of the praise must be given. Thorough in preparation, quick in repartee, forcible in argument, it was no disgrace to the Yale representatives to be defeated by them. In such a contest it was honor even to lose...