Word: loss
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weeks after the first game by two others; and knowing that, under the rule compelling amateurs to have severed their connections for one month previous with all other clubs than their last love before playing in a match game, the Harvard team would be weakened by the loss of several of its members who were playing on various amateur nines, the Lowell Club challenged Harvard for the ball in the middle of August, although they had been notified that Harvard would be unable to play till September. Harvard at once refused to play and handed over the ball...
...faculty of Tufts College is as follows: Hereafter the faculty will receive no petitions offering excuse for absences. In making up the rank of students all absences from recitations will count zero, except in cases of prolonged absence occasioned by illness or other extraordinary cause, in which case such loss may be made up by private examinations. In other cases the rank of each student will be determined wholly by the work done at the regular recitations of his class. Any student who fails to attain a rank of 50 per cent. by reason of absence from recitations, except...
...Tribune speaking of Columbia, says: "The nine will greatly feel the loss of Finley and Ayrault, the best college catcher and pitcher placed in the field for years...
Prof. Lanciani, in his lecturing tour in this country, has suffered some $100 loss from the breaking of lantern slides and the like, caused by frequent packings and unpackings and the havoc of traveling...
...working system of our universisy. Most of us are able to explain the nature of the various courses of instruction, and to make clear the requirements for a degree. Beyond this the knowledge of only a very few men extends. That spirit of harmony of interests, whose loss is being so much deplored at Harvard, would be in great measure revived if men turned their attention toward the true nature of the advance and development of the institution that is doing so much to shape their minds and their characters. The same duty that drives the citizen of the United...