Word: losely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seen by the small number of spectators attending them. The number of college games need not necessarily be lessened, for practice games can be arranged which would be as interesting as the championship games have been. In games with the smaller colleges we have everything to lose and nothing to gain. A victory over them is immediately forgotten, and the nine receives no credit for it. But if we happen to drop a game to them the nine is condemned in the strongest terms. So it seems to us that Harvard will be taking a wise step if she decides...
...contest was not decided till one or the other of the opposing parties had been pulled entirely over a chalk-line on the deck. Of course, after a few heaves, if one side began heaving all together, as sailor's heave a rope, the other side was bound to lose...
...better for them. Courses in French, English Literature and Fine Arts make good conversationalists; but they help one but little in the stern realities of a legal or business career. Men ought to think previously how they are drifting, before they make their election of courses; for they frequently lose all track of their previous education, their previous convictions, and their previous manner of thinking, by dabbling in the pleasant but deceptive waters of philosophy and art. It is a certain fact that only one man in thirty has a fine philosophical mind; and like the "little learning" which...
Because we need a few things, such as one or two dormitories, the lighting of Gore Hall, plank sidewalks in the yard and an elevated railway to Boston, which the authorities can not furnish all at once on account of the lack of available funds, we must not lose sight of the fact, that in the great and complicated whole, the university is, to use a technical Greek phrase "just booming...
...affirmative, denied most of the statements made by his predecessor. He then touched upon the fearful oppression to which the Irish nation had been subject to at the hands of England for 700 years. By means of statistics written upon the blackboard, he showed that England would lose nothing by surrendering all claim to the control of Ireland...