Word: losely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...anything can be added to the knowledge and skill they already possess. Being thus raised so far above us who have not attained this intellectual height (the "ignoble vulgar" as it were), they altogether for, get that we should like to hear the instructor's words, even though we lose the pleasure and profit of our friends' conversation. Let them not scorn us but pity us and aid us to reach their intellectual eminence...
Dartmouth College is about to lose President Bartlett; Prof. A. S. Hardy will take his place...
...with the "Oedipus." Whether prejudiced in Harvard's favor or not, I think no one would deny that the "Oedipus" was the much more interesting production. The "Acharnians" lacks that strong human interest which a tragic story has in every age. Personal invective (like the attacks on Lamachus) must lose some point in the lapse of centuries when the attacked person has been well-nigh forgotten, while the sufferings of the Thebauprima are always affecting. Again, the "Acharnians" did not give the spectators that sense of being transported into another world which the "Oedipus" gave. In a word, the illusion...
...drawn for the freshman eights who are not at the boat-house at 9.10 will be liable to lose their seats in the boats to those next in order who have not been drawn...
...upperclassmen. How can you be so unsympathetic and cold of heart to the orphaned and homesick nursling who thus appeals to you for love and aid. For consider that perhaps by gentle treatment after a few short years, you may so improve their tender spirit that he will lose the greenness and lack of commonsense which tempts him to give instruction to men older, wiser, and more manly than himself...