Word: lose
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Passadena offers a royal welcome to her visitors. The evenings before the great game are filled with merriment and sport for the eastern guests. On the evening after the game a ball is held in the Maryland Hotel. Win or lose, no team ever comes away from Pasadena disappointed, for the western spirit of hospitality pervades the atmosphere and the qualities of real sportsmanship are recognized on every hand...
...Professor Leacock replied that strongly as the dormitories impressed him, he could never support any plan that endangered the freedom of the individual. "We have seen the effect of the Prussian system of compulsion in the universities," he went on, "and we must be careful that we do not lose that freedom which has always characterized British and American university life...
...Thirty or forty years ago there was the same discussion of academic freedom as today, but then the conflict waged about Darwin. Many earnest persons argued that no college professor should be allowed to support the Darwinian theory lest the young college man lose his religion. The investigation of evolution continued, however; the Darwinians won, and no one now contends that the results have been fatal to religion or morality...
Should Harvard lose every game on her football schedule up to the last and then defeat Yale, the season Would be a success to every Crimson graduate and undergraduate. But this year the eleven has dozen more than this. Meeting Yale without a single defeat against them and with their goal line crossed only once, Capt. Murray and his men outgeneraled and outfought the Bulldog who generalship and fighting counted. The slightest failure in any one of a half-dozen situations fully to grasp Harvard's opportunities ties or to stem the tide of the Eli attack would have turned...
...Opera is drama set to music. The drama in the combination is almost as important as the music itself. If the drama cannot be understood, then a large part of the music must lose its effect. When we develop generally, as the Boston English Opera Company has developed, a native opera, under native direction and native conductors, we shall have a truly popular opera, and at last we shall be emancipated from the foreign operatic monopoly...