Word: losely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such fellowships. The fellows may, but need not act as tutors for the students. They need not even live in the university town, but may spend their stipends where they like, and in many cases may retain the fellowships for an indefinite period. With some exceptions, they only lose it in case they marry, or are elected to certain offices. They are the real successors of the old corporation of students, by and for which the university was founded and endowed. But however beautiful this plan may seem, and notwithstanding the enormous sums devoted to it, in the opinion...
...more anxious they should be kept within due bounds. I am not aware that there has been any excess in physical exercise, but there has been in the exciting games that are played. I calculate that some eight or ten students in every class of one hundred lose very much of the benefit of their college life because their hearts are in the sports rather than in the studies. I am sorry to be obliged to say that the enthusiasm of the students is expended on these muscular feats rather than on intellectual exercises. The hero-of his class...
...leave Cambridge because his athletic record was not so good as was expected of him. Our love of athletics has never carried us so far. We can assure the freshman nine that we feel convinced that they will do their best this afternoon and if they win or lose they will be supported by the confidence and sympathy of their classmates and the college...
Younger sister - "Miss Jones told us today in school that young people who read Byron lose all their freshness. Have we a copy in the house, Mary?" Mary (doubtfully) - "Yes, Clara; why?" Clara - "I want to read some to Tom before he goes back to college." [Chaff...
...confer the degree of doctor of laws upon Governor Butler. We do not suppose that the overseers gave any special thought to the popularity or the unpopularity of their act. They had a simple duty to perform, and they performed it; and to suppose that the college is to lose its hold upon the public regard because the gentlemen in charge of its affairs do not hold its honors so lightly as to vote to bestow them where they are undeserved, is an absurdity. "Popularity" which is to be lost in this way is better lost than gained. Matters have...