Word: vanquish
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...making it an object for her freshman nine to win the ball game from the Harvard nine, by her provision for not allowing the freshmen to sit on the fence in the event of their failure. Our freshman nine has been laughed at, encouraged and implored, by turns, to vanquish Yale, but all to no purpose. Something must be done, and that before the coming game. Why not make the admission of the freshman class to the tree on class day conditional on their defeat of Yale? When all other means fail, a direct appeal to their own interest like...