Word: loseing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...MORROW we lose from our midst the Class of 1873. A short rush for some flowers hanging on the old "Rebellion Tree," and their college life is practically over. The unusual number of warm friends, that the present graduating class has made in those below them, will feel, next year, that they have had a great loss in the departure of '73. We wish them a brilliant Class Day and good luck in life...
...Headache all day. Have returned to my club-table. "Slum" may be cheap and healthy, but I lose too much flesh on it. Have given up Gymnasium. Walking is far healthier, even around a billiard-table...
...taken his position. They seemed to have some difficulty in rowing their shell steadily at first. That is removed now, and in their perfect time and clean feathering throughout the boat they are hardly equalled by the other crews. They have a tendency to hurry up their stroke, and lose a little on their reach by nervously putting their oars in the water before fully forward...
...over as much ground as possible, and an evening walk is the cause of pangs of conscience. A feeling seems continually to possess them, that they must do something, lest some opportunity should pass unheeded. Unsatisfied while a moment is left unoccupied by study, they too often lose the good they strive...
...concerns my neighbors; for the College thinks it very wrong for classmates to live together, and consequently I have here men of every class, description, taste, and habit, mingled together. I know of but one entry in college where the opposite is the case, and there, while the students lose none of the solid benefits, they gain many of the lighter enjoyments of college life...