Word: vanquished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students who had for several years successfully played against Princeton and Columbia, the old-fashioned game, on the suggestion of Harvard men adopted the new style. In that year the Harvard team who had had the advantage of two or three years experience, found it an easy task to vanquish the Yale team, weak from lack of experience. I have a faint remembrance now, of the general feeling of mortification among the students because of that crushing defeat, and the determination to retrieve the next season. How apt pupils they were is shown by the fact that since that time...
...have proved our superiority over Englishmen during the past three summers in yachting. Why not try to vanquish them also in the shell? There is an impression among many that the English crews are superior to ours. This idea would probably be exploded if such a race could take place...
...making it an object for her freshman nine to win the ball game from the Harvard nine, by her provision for not allowing the freshmen to sit on the fence in the event of their failure. Our freshman nine has been laughed at, encouraged and implored, by turns, to vanquish Yale, but all to no purpose. Something must be done, and that before the coming game. Why not make the admission of the freshman class to the tree on class day conditional on their defeat of Yale? When all other means fail, a direct appeal to their own interest like...