Word: loss
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chosen by the students of the school to preach the Christmas sermon last December; he was a very promising preacher, beloved by his fellow students and by all with whom he had come in contact. While he was without relatives, he had many very dear friends who mourn their loss...
...fire, due to spontaneous combustion, broke out about 1 o'clock Sunday morning in the new Pudding building on Holyoke street. A passer-by succeeded in extinguishing without assistance. The loss was about ten dollars...
...members of the 'Varsity lacrosse team were out on Jarvis. The men practised passing and catching. Several new men have signified their intention of trying for the eleven, which has been very much weakened by the loss of its members in the last graduating class...
...just off Holyoke st. The building is occupied by five shops-the ground floor by a shell-builder and a rod-maker, the second floor by a carpenter, and the third by another carpenter and a slater. The building was valued at about $2,500 and was an utter loss. All except one lost a large part of their stock, in fact little was saved except a few shells and a large part of the slater's stock. Most of the occupants had, however, a partial insurance. The fire is supposed to have been an incendiary, there being every evidence...
...rather at a loss to account for the appearance in the Advocate of such a nondescript piece of writing as the lines entitled "A Vapid Vaporing." We have thought that none but articles which had some claim to literary merit were published in this paper, but here we find something that is entirely out of place. The high tone of the other articles is lowered by the presence of these verses, which, if they were in their proper place, might call for our approval. Perhaps the best thing in the present number is the stanza, "A Memory: to Nightfall...