Word: lose
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...between '93 and '94, or '95 and '96, it will be played on Thursday, May 11th. In case a third game is necessary in both series a toss will decide which series shall be played on this date, and another day will be set for the two classes which lose the toss...
These, however, are only the minor difficulties. The great mass of men find themselves sometimes in life and most likely during the college life, to be upset upon the main doctrine they have been taught to believe. They lose their child like faith, and despair of ever regaining it. Then is a dark interlude and yet that interlude ought to come to every man, it is essential to real belief. As the old philosophers put it, we have position, opposition and composition. We doubt the doctrine, we find its contradictions and then we unite all once more and the truth...
When at first the play has become a reality one does not mind it. The first business seems like going back to boyish days. But when life loses this element of play, if it does lose it all, there comes the tragedy of real life. It comes when all play is gone and when there is nothing left except tiresome work. He who once worked in play is now driven...
...students of the University. The position taken by the writer is well chosen. It is not out of place for Harvard to ally herself with the interests of the community; and yet we feel that even the interests of the University are in a way concerned. We shall not lose anything by indifference to the scheme; there is how ever a possibility that the plan, if carried out, would be a decided gain. A university placed in the heart of a city is always at a disadvantage. Though the college yard be ever so attractive, it is distinctly better...
...membership of the higher society to him. If, in the course of time, such an organization could raise the quality of its work to that of the new Harvard Union, the University would be so much better off. It is hard to see how the college has anything to lose by the action to-night; it has the possibility of gaining much...