Word: losely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some time past, still we must feel it very gratifying to have such matters left to us to whom we believe they rightfully belong. The slight disturbances in recent celebrations make this action all the more welcome. We look forward, then, to enthusiastic and impressive celebrations, which will lose nothing of their spontaneity by being systematic and orderly...
...than that the doctrine of expediency should be our rule of life." There was nothing in the lecture which admits of such a construction. Mr. Lodge said, "Work for the highest and best measures, but when there is no moral question involved do not by insisting on the unattainable lose everything...
When opportunity is offered, it must not be thrown away. Given leisure, what shall be done with it? Money is not valuable in itself; the necessity of earning a living is a great safeguard. It is easy to lose one's opportunity through dissipation. Far better is it to spend one's time in the pursuit of manly pastimes. But though play should make a part of every man's life, it should not make the whole of it. A third use of leisure is devotion to literary pursuits, without any result of consequence springing therefrom. Such a life gives...
...Boston "sports" is, to say the least, unfortunate. Hissing can never change a referee's decision, and the men who hissed last Saturday brought only disgrace upon themselves and the college. Gentlemanly conduct at athletic exhibitions has so long been our peculiar reputation that we must not lose it now - even in the heat of a feather-weight sparring match, or in any other exciting contest...
Next to his physiognomy a man's note-book is important in judging his character. There may be some who will not believe this; but they will be found to be the unobserving among us, those who lose the greatest benefit of a college course, knowledge of one's fellow men! Note-books have as many individualities as the men who write them, always remembering that, aside from the general classification, some books will be found to include one or more of the characteristics of several classes...