Word: losely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very difficult to pick out a strong team to represent their respective colleges every season. It is often the case that a collegian, after several seasons' work in the diamond field, is graduated just when he becomes an accomplished player of the national game. The Princeton College Club will lose four of its most valuable players next season. They are Larkin, the first baseman; Ernst, the pitcher; Schenck, the catcher, and Rafferty, the second baseman. About a dozen collegians have sent in applications for membership in the nine to fill the four vacancies. It is thought that Princeton will have...
...time has been - and that not ages ago - when he was considered the best fellow who could get the fullest. But in a community devoted to education and refinement, such sottishness cannot be of long duration. In no community will a man who looses respect for himself so speedily lose all respect from his fellows and fall so completely from caste. He may continue to be recognized by the men with whom he associates day by day, but unless he reforms his habits, unless he makes more of a gentleman of himself, he cannot hope any longer to be counted...
...meeting room in the gymnasium is an institution which should not be allowed to lose any portion of its interest by becoming a memorial simply of the remote past. Such at present seems to be the danger, for no new pictures and trophies to speak of have been put in since the room was first fitted up. There can be found there pictures neither of the crews, nines or foot-ball teams of the past two years. Of course such things can be much more easily furnished now than they will be later, and it seems as if somebody should...
...studio whether they are satisfied with the proofs furnished from sittings already made. All such are urged to decide at once whether the proofs be satisfactory or not. If they are, word should be immediately sent to the studio; if not, it is hoped that they will lose no time in making other sittings. Appointments may be made either through the undersigned or at the studio. The committee cannot too strongly urge prompt action on the part of all, so that the work may be finished within the specified time...
These various restrictive measures have on the whole commended themselves to the judgment of the whole body of students and graduates. "When games are made a business they lose a great part of their charm, and college sports cannot approach the professional standard of excellence without claiming the almost exclusive attention of the players, and becoming too severely monotonous and exacting to be thoroughly enjoyable...