Word: slump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slump...
Princeton went undefeated through its remaining Ivy League games, while Harvard settled down to enjoy its usual late-season slump...
...wane. The Golden Age began to tarnish after the Crimson's 11th Intercollegiate title in 1892--its last for a long time. For the next four years, Harvard struggled to stay in contention. Then, in 1896--its last pressive last gasp effort that would be followed by a sustained slump in the track department--Harvard's tiny contingent to the first of the modern Olympic Games in Athens picked up five gold medals...
...some time during the four years as an undergraduate at Harvard, nearly everyone asks himself whether or not he really belongs here. For some, this uncertainty may occur only briefly during the freshman year; others experience it more intensely as part of their "sophomore slump." And there is always the small--but disturbingly increasing--number of seniors, who even at the end of four years feel vaguely out of place. They suspect that what they wanted from Harvard was not what Harvard wanted to give them...
...Yardlings improved their record to 9-4. After having won six of their first seven games, they droped into a post-holiday slump which culminated in a 100-83 defeat to Exeter ten days ago. Tufts beat Exeter by two points...