Word: losely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Athens in October, 1888, when Professor Merriam's appointed year of office will end, on the condition that a permanent endowment for the School shall be secured before that time. Dr. Waldstein has accepted the invitation with this condition. It is obvious that there is no time to lose, if we are to avail ourselves of this opportunity. It should certainly be an object of national pride not only to secure the permanent establishment of an institution which is so full of promise to American scholarship, but at the same time to reclaim for his country a scholar...
...then the soul is dead, although the understanding may remain. The sin of to-day is the insensibility to spiritual life. Men are asking whether life is worth living, but the souls of such men are dead. "What profits it a man if he gain the whole world, but lose his own soul...
Next year Harvard will lose five of her foot-ball team, Yale three, Princeton four, and Wesleyan...
...Yale would be one in three. But the cause of the opposition which grew up among the majority of men was both a sympathy for the interests of the smaller colleges and a prevailing opinion that while Yale had little to gain by the change she had all to lose. For these two reasons, then, Yale has acted as she has, and as to whether she is willing to enter any new league, consisting of a larger yet limited number of colleges, as has been suggested, no definite answer can yet be made...
Substitute - Never gets a good seat. Rushes badly. Keeps no grip on his oar. Settles at full reach, and also at finish. Keeps bad time. Should learn not to lose his temper when being coached...