Word: losely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trouble and annoyance of getting up theatricals. The members of the Conference Fransaise are now rehearsing for a French play which will be presented tomorrow evening. We congratulate the Society on its enterprise. It is a tendency of all societies formed for purposes of educational improvement to degenerate and lose their vitality as time goes on and the novelty wears off. The Conference Francaise seems to be in no such danger and the deep interest taken by the members in all the proceedings of the club predicts for it a long and useful life. The play of tomorrow night...
...ruin of a really good athlete, and so we trust that the efforts of no candidate for the Mott Haven team will be slackened through too much faith in newspaper reports. Harvard must strain every nerve to win that cup this year. and she must not be allowed to lose through carelessness. A word the wise is sufficient...
...Jesus. We must become children again, not rebellions, not defiant, not meagre; but simple and devoted. When we hear His voice, there can never be any doubt as to what He wants of us. If we listen and obey, there will never be a mistake. The future will lose its mystery and we shall be ready for obience in the higher duties of the life beyond...
...played with the University of Pennsylvania on Holmes Field in the early part of June. The University of Pennsylvania has the finest eleven in the country and in meeting it our eleven stands only a slight chance of victory; but, whether we win or lose, that game will call the attention of the whole college to cricket and will give it a new interest as an intercollegiate sport...
...leave it lying on the table. But it also takes more trouble to look over the ten or twelve tables in the reading room before finding a book, than to get it from the shelf where it belongs. Men forget that what they gain in the one instance they lose in the other. If every man would take the little trouble required to replace a book, all the users of the reading room would be naturally benefited. This will never come about till the sentiment among the readers is strong enough to make anyone who is careless about returning books...