Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cannot ask the Crew to row Cornell; but we may hope that as three of the men who will probably sit in the four have been beaten by Cornell, they will feel incited to make the most of this last opportunity which they will have to wipe out their defeat...
...great advantages in having a regatta of this sort under competent management, and from all that we can learn the N. A. A. O. can supply this management. There is one thing to be considered, however, in entering any but a University crew in such a race, that any defeat for it will be considered a defeat of the University. There are many people who cannot understand that it was a Freshman, and not a University crew, that was beaten at Owasco Lake last summer...
...classes in different colleges may sometimes happen to be approximately equal in size, even when there is great disparity in that respect between the colleges themselves. Furthermore, an oarsman may fairly be presumed to have less hesitancy in trying his luck when he feels that the odium of possible defeat will attach to the name of his class rather than to the name of his college...
...after the inter-'Varsity race in February or March, and that it would be very difficult to persuade them to keep in trim through the summer. Oxford is not confident of beating Cambridge, as six of last year's crew have left the boat, and in case of her defeat she fears a race with the losers would be unsatisfactory to Harvard. It may seem to some unfair that we should be deprived of an opportunity to retrieve our loss in '69; but when we consider the circumstances in which Oxford is placed and the difficulties attending all attempts...
...crew all the more to sustain the honor and reputation of Harvard, and as all the arrangements for a race with Yale have been completed, it would seem a pity that, because of a little apathy on the part of the crew, we should run the risk of defeat while we still have such splendid stuff in college. We trust that the officers of the H. U. B. C. will be able by their persuasion to settle the matter aright, and that the crew of '79 will not by any hasty action break up an University Eight which has been...