Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...that one was fitted at a certain school and his competitor at another! The spirit that seemed to actuate the men, as one of the members of the class is reported to have said, was this: "We don't care a straw for the office, but we want to defeat that man from -." If this were not their first year in Cambridge, they would know that just such a spirit among the fellows has already greatly injured one or two Freshman crews: and members of the other classes fear that it will succeed in gaining another victim...
...professional clubs, as a result of Saturday's game, a return of that wholesome respect for the Harvard Nine which experience taught, but which seems to have degenerated into a patronizing feeling of superiority. This is not only Harvard's first victory over the "Reds," but also their first defeat at the hands of an amateur organization, and the result will no doubt be of great benefit to both, encouraging Harvard, while, if nothing more, impressing Boston with a sense of the "glorious uncertainty" of Base Ball. The day was cold, the attendance slight, and yet the game...
...rather amusing to notice the sincere way in which many of our smaller exchanges compliment the Advocate and Magenta on their cheerful resignation after Harvard's defeat in the Regatta, and applaud their "plucky" hopes for next year. We assure our kind sympathizers that boating is not quite dead here, and that just as likely as not there will be some kind of a Harvard crew next summer...
...Harvard way of accepting defeat seems to us much better than ours, as exhibited in the controversy of '70, and we may well take the lesson thus taught us to heart, to be acted upon in the future." - Yale Courant...
...that the result of the races was a great disappointment to us would be but a slight expression of the general feeling. To have the cup dashed from our lips when it so nearly touched them makes the defeat the harder to bear. But in such a defeat there is no disgrace, no blame to be attached to any one, as all who saw Harvard's last, grand burst of speed must acknowledge...