Word: lose
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...asked to emphasize the announcement that no applications for seats at the Harvard Night will be received after four o'clock this afternoon. A very large number of blanks have been taken by members of the University, and the committee wish that no one should lose his chance through any misunderstanding. On the other hand, such arrangements have been made that the committee cannot possibly extend the time within which applications will University. Applications must be on time or they cannot be considered...
...very great for college men of intellectual inclinations to be receptive and not expansive. Shut off for four years from the needs of the world, they learn to consult simply their own needs. The result is seen in men who so fiill themselves with knowledge as utterly to lose the power of initiative. Their knowledge is a great weight rather than a great power. The idea underlying Professor Hanus's work is that men should take time to consider not only how to obtain, but also how to impart. It seems to us to be a very wholesome idea...
Rule 8. Each contestant shall be allowed one second, who shall not talk to or advise either of the contestants. Any contestant breaking rule 7, or refusing to break any hold when so ordered by the referee, shall lose the bout and be debarred from further competition...
...between the Harvard and Yale Unions. The Wendell Phillips Club was at that time not in existence. The New Harvard Union is the direct descendant of the Harvard Union, and the men who formed it preferred to stay in the society rather than form a new society and thus lose the prestige in managing the Yale debates...
...stands for, it is perfect truthfulness in every individual member and as a whole. Many things, however, the student feels that his fellows will regard leniently and accordingly he is willing to go wrong. He would never think of it if he knew that by so doing he would lose all reputation and position in college. Thus a tremendous power is in the hands of college men,- namely, the direction of college sentiment. This is a power that, to some measure, is in the hands of every individual. Let us be sure that no man can lay his reputation...