Word: lose
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rooms reading; the temptation to spend most of his time, after actually dissipating it, in an endless round of temporary interests is less; there is often a tendency among students, as President Wilson has said, to substitute the side-shows for the main tent. We would not lose "Harvard University," which is the definitive reply to the taunt of "Harvard indifference"; but it must be recognized that too little reading is done by most men. And without doubt a solid foundation of good reading is the best thing one can carry away from his four years at College...
...CRIMSON, however, conclusively proved by an unsigned contract for a Yard room that this was not the case, and that it didn't matter anyway. Not wanting to lose the game on account of a mere technicality, the CRIMSON refused to consider the protest...
...maximum of responsibility with the minimum of risk. If, however, supervision on the part of the office is carried beyond a certain point, there is great danger that more harm than good will result. While possibly gaining from better direction of his activities, the undergraduate will inevitably lose in the larger and more vital matter of the development of individual responsibility and initiative...
...many and so varied are the activities in the University, that very often men in one department lose sight completely of the work carried on in other departments. It is therefore often worth while to call to mind the progress which is being made in certain advanced fields, usually not familiar to the undergraduate. Doubtless few Harvard men know, for instance, that the Physics Department is one of the most active and progressive in the country, and that its work has attracted international attention...
...just such over-zealous patriots as Professor Meyer who are responsible for most of whatever anti-German sentiment exists in the United States today. If Harvard should lose its "fairness and good will" toward Germany, it will be such as Professor Meyer who are to blame. No University likes to be taken sharply to task for what, if it is a fault at all, is a microscopic one; or to have its right of free speech criticized by one whose ideals of free speech are as Teutonic as Professor Meyer...