Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...last meeting of the Directors of the Dining Association it was voted that any member withdrawing from the Hall within two weeks before a recess, and returning within-two weeks after it, shall be granted only the usual allowance for temporary absence. This was passed to defeat evasion of claims for temporary absence under the pretence of having "withdrawn" from the Association. Mineral waters will henceforth be kept as extras on the bill of fare...
...further off one got, - especially if at the same time further from Cambridge, - the more prevalent that opinion would have been found; the more so if one of the largest newspapers in that part of New York announced in large type, as one of the Crimson editors testifies, "CORNELL defeats HARVARD." In New York City, it is disagreeable to be chaffed by one's friends because Harvard has been beaten by such a little college as Cornell. This actually happened after '81's defeat...
...college it produces little effect in the world outside of college that Harvard should have won; whereas, if Harvard Freshmen are beaten, it makes the greatest sensation, and nearly every one thinks it was the University Crew which has been beaten. This occurred in the case of '81's defeat by Cornell, and is alone almost a sufficient reason for doing away with them...
...respectively. Three games with the Bostons proved more disastrous than usual. The Princeton was the only college club over which our Nine was victorious, and the championship went to Yale. Our prestige in base ball had fallen, and after the victories up to '73, a period of defeat...
...lost 11, and had two drawn. Very strong professional nines were played, and beaten, as, for instance, the Lowells, 3 to 1; Bostons, 7 to 6; Rhode Islands, 11 to o; and the Fall Rivers, 6 to 3. Only one game in the college series was a defeat, and that was the second with Yale, in which the score stood 6 to 7 in favor of the blue. The Nine, imitating the example of the champions of '70, took a trip after Commencement and went as far south as Philadelphia. Leeds led the batting this year, with a record...