Word: wiped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have the opportunity to wipe the effect of past defeats-although we have never been ashamed of them-and to put Harvard in the lead again. The opportunity must be seized. The exertions of the crew should be supported and encouraged by the students as they never have been before. The University has a right to expect victory...
...seen by the score, for it must be remembered that the Wellington Club has a great reputation. A week from Thursday a match will be shot with the University of Pennsylvania team at Watertown, which will excite great interest, as the Pennsylvania men come determined to win and wipe out the two defeats which they suffered last spring from Harvard, one match here and the other, a live-pigeon shoot in Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania Club's own grounds...
...Yale freshman candidates and Harvard candidates, one cannot help but be impressed with the weakness of our men. From present developments the freshmen here are decidedly inferior to the men at New Haven, and only by the hardest kind of work and systematic training can Harvard hope to wipe out the remembrance of the fiasco of last year's freshman team...
...regime that they cannot even appreciate that changes are taking place, much less understand the significance of those changes. To those who are still in the dark as to our intents, we would say that we advocate an improvement in the tone of Harvard life which will wipe out the deference paid "to pink shirts and bull-pups...
...fact. Her victories last year put her above the other college nines in public opinion. but it was far from proven that she had the best team. Every student in Cambridge is eager to see his college nine cross bats with her again and thereby obtain an opportunity to wipe out the defeat of last year...