Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record. The Engineers lost to Horstra 15-8, and to C. W. Post, 13-6, while downing Adelphi, 7-2, and Loyola, 10-9. The Crimson earned its only victory during its trip by clubbing C. W. Post, 14-6, in its opener. But since that win Harvard has been hit by injuries, so comparative scores in this case are not really reliable...
Cetrulo tied Braslow with an 8-3 slate in the finals, beating him in the round robin competition, 5-3. But Braslow came back in the playoff bout to win 5-4 and gain first place...
Purdy lost the 18th hole when he bogied it and the Navy man managed a par. Purdy bogied the difficult 19th hole while the Navy man birdied it to win the match...
Number 5 man, Paul Oldfield, had to sink an eight-foot putt to win the 18th hole and tie the match. At the last moment, his putt veered to the low side and he lost the match, one down...
...Tears, idle tears . . . tears from the depth of some divine despair." Characteristically trying to keep cheerful, Lear referred to his own numbing bouts of depression as "the morbids." His versifier's reaction to such metaphysical miseries would never win him the laureateship, but they essayed an heroic humor outside Tennyson's reach...