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...graduates from that city unstinted gratitude for the earnest efforts they had made to show our athletes how their efforts to win in a straightforward gentlemanly way will be backed by the approbation of the alumni. He added that Mr. Hodges had often shown his loyalty to Harvard in defeat as he now had a chance to show it in victory. Mr. Hodges then made a short address, the drift of which was that the New York graduates were not trying simply to glorify victors but to show their pleasure at the fact that what success we have had lately...
...team which suffered defeat at New York on that day had one of the hardest seasons ever encountered by an eleven and "few outside of those who follow every game have any conception of the struggle which Captain Poe went through...
Whether you print this or not, I beg you to set me right, in advance of my suggestions. What value there may be in them is open to question. But there can be no question as to where I stand regarding our New London lustrum of mortifying defeat...
...crew. If this is done faithfully we shall hear no more men talking about now tired they are of training, and shall see none of that listless work which either on the weights or in the boat is so discouraging to a coach and which always results in defeat...
...best sentiment of every Harvard man. He assured the men that whether they won or lost, their honest efforts would be appreciated by the graduates of Harvard. Above all he assured them that the enthusiasm of Harvard men in New York does not depend on victories or defeats for its favor, but on the steadiness and manliness with which the name of the university is upheld. They can bear every honest defeat with equanimity and greet with heartfelt joy success in any possible direction...