Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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After all, my desire to see Harvard defeat Yale is secondary to my wish to see her exhibit scientific rowing for its own sake; and, if the annual struggle continues, I should prefer to see the flags awarded to the best oarsmanship, if it were practicable to come to a decision on such a basis. As it is, I am disposed to encourage races only so far as they encourage again a general use of the oar among the students as a means of improving the health...
...Calm and unprejudiced critics have never held but one opinion, namely, because she rowed better and with more judgment. Why did Yale beat Harvard last year? For precisely the same reason. Nothing can be farther from me than to be personal in my remarks. The anguish of defeat is too great to be augmented by harsh words; but defeat, though unpalatable, is often salutary. Had Americans, and especially Harvard men, instead of deluding themselves with patriotic excuses, taken a wholesome lesson from their plucky and honorable defeat on the Thames, more silk flags would adorn to-day our Alma Mater...
...Record devotes five columns to the recent foot-ball game. The following remarks are from one of the editorials: "But we suspect that the Harvard players, on returning to Cambridge, were most cordially reprehended, and that, to cover up the defeat if possible, it was at once resolved to bring into requisition the regulation Harvard tactics of bluster and complaint. . . . . We have the word of four of the most prominent of Harvard's players, that they had not even read over the Rugby Union rules under which the game was conducted. It was patent to any unbiassed spectator that Harvard...
...sung by the Brunonian: "Magnanimous Harvard clung to it to the last, as she was the first to enter it. Now, dazzled by the fancy of initiating a series of Oxford-Cambridge races, wherein if the glory of victory would be less, so would be the disgrace of defeat, she has followed Yale in retiring, and rowing in America has doubtless passed the high flood of its fame." It may be queried how Harvard could initiate a series of Oxford-Cambridge races, and how a thing could pass the high flood (whatever that may be) of its anything. "The Muse...
...seats in the University boat. A place on the crew is an honor emulously sought for, and relinquished only with a struggle. At Yale, Captain Cook had constantly at his elbow a force of strong, trained men, waiting and working for a chance. Year after year, through success and defeat, the same men stuck by him; and no Harvard man will deny that they were well rewarded, last June, for their faithfulness. With us, a place is won on the crew to satisfy personal ambition; and when all have seen that it was once won, and can be retained...