Word: defeatedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard was again defeated yesterday and this time in about as exciting and hotly contested a game as has been seen on Holmes Field for several years. The worst part of this defeat was that it was absolutely unnecessary, and was due entirely to the most childish of playing at critical points. For seven innings both nines played a brilliant game, and during this time Harvard held the lead by one run. In the eighth inning the team gave an exhibition of the most atrocious playing that has been seen in Cambridge this year, and seven runs were allowed principally...
...First Defeat in Debating...
...wish to protest against some of the statements made in your editorial of May 4, concerning the Yale debate, for the simple reason that in your anxiety to explain satisfactorily the cause of the defeat you have disregarded the truth of the matter...
...before, and it is therefore doubly disappointing that they should have failed in the present instance. We will not say that careful preparation on this point would have won us the debate with Yale; we will say that it would have gone far to lessen the discredit of the defeat...
This is the lesson that our first defeat in debating can teach us, and if we refuse to profit by it, our prestige in debate before very long will be gone...