Word: defeated
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...DAILY CRIMSON Eleven yesterday met defeat on Jarvis field, at the hands of the Argonauts of '87. The score stood at the end of the first half hour 4 to 0 for the sophomores, and at the end of the game 12 to nothing in their favor. The players of the successful eleven were Weistling, Russell, Loud, Fletcher, Faulkner, Austin, De Vean, Carmault, Stedman, Emery, and Stedman...
...with the refusal of the undergraduates. Most of the Law students are voter and attach more political significance to their action than do the undergraduates. A club which is formed for express purpose of electing a Democratic president cannot reasonably be expected to do anything which would tend to defeat their purpose. It is but natural that they should refuse to join a Blaine and Logan procession, they could do nothing else under the circumstances. But it does not seem fair for them to try to swell their numbers from the undergraduates and thus prevent the college from going...
...Yale nine was defeated recently by the Hartfords by the score of 12 to 1. The cause of this severe defeat was the loose fielding, for the Hartfords only made eight base hits from Odell's pitching...
...honor of the college? We sincerely trust so ! Let there be an immediate end to this lethargy which enthralls the college now. It is the duty of every man who is able to support the captain in his efforts to wrest victory from the very jaws of defeat. If these words go unheeded, and defeat once more be our lot, it will be only just that the shame of it fall on those men who have contributed to bring it on, by their shameful neglect and inactivity...
...rate whether in these conclusions we be right or wrong, it is evident that something must be done and that very soon. Year by year Harvard has had phenomenal players -players who head the record lists and yet, as regularly as the sunrises, defeat has been our lot. There has been far too much brilliant individual playing and far too little strong team play, and it is good steady team play that brings success. What we want now is to win something. sometime, somewhere. the only thing we have to be grateful for during this last year is that there...