Word: lose
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there is to be any enduring progress, it is imperative that younger men do not lose their originality, and enthusiasm for new ideas. In an institution such as this, where the stuff of life is thought, such intellectual relapses and stagnation are least excusable. Nevertheless, the University is situated in one of the few localities in this country in which a newspaper can advise its readers to be content to peg along in the world...
...Harvard and Yale squads will each lose sixteen men by graduation this year, Harvard from a squad of 37 and Yale from a squad of 28. Harvard will lose six of the players who have been regulars this season, and Yale will lose seven...
...welter of distracting undergraduate activities, with no guiding purpose. On graduating some, merely following the line of least resistance, become teachers, without regard for the special qualifications needed for high success in that profession. Others drift into business positions, in which they are dissatisfied; and frequently they lose several years in continued drifting before they find a permanent calling...
...that the men who resigned were completely innocent of any real professionalism in spirit, and only ignorance of a technicality led them to the disqualifying act. It is no exaggeration to say that all Harvard men feel the deepest regret at the incident. Whether the University teams win or lose, it is the desire of all sportsmen that they meet opponents who have not lost a part of their strength,--especially through such a stroke of chance as this...
...other two teams on the University's schedule, Penn. State and Brown play Gettysburg and Williams, respectively. Penn. State should have little difficulty in winning, but Brown may lose to Williams for both have appeared equally weak-to date...