Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Will a man play harder if he knows that after a losing game there are friends eager to crowd around and wipe away his tears, or if he knows that, defeated, he will be given the cold shoulder? I know this sounds hard, but success is worth the price. We want, not the spirit that accepts defeat with resignation, but the spirit that will not tolerate...
...confident that among the number present that night were many who in their own minds, at the time and since, have condemned the whole proceeding, but that unfortunately can not now wipe out the impression made upon hundreds who are only too apt to believe from the behavior of comparatively few that Harvard College is but another name for idleness and dissipation...
...class has still plenty of chance to redeem itself. Having suffered defeat in foot ball it should bend its energies with the greater determination to the development of a good crew and nine. A victory in base ball and another on the water in the spring will wipe out the recollection of this defeat in foot ball. And they are all that will...