Word: loss
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remember as one of those college ceremonies that are rapidly dying out in our higher institutions of learning as they gradually advance nearer to the state of the ideal university. Although such progress works incalculable good, it has, I think, this one drawback; that it involves a loss of many customs that showed, if you will, a more boyish and consequently less properly developed state of feeling, but that still constituted in a great measure that part of college life which one cares to recall in after years...
...that number would seek the system of our fathers at Yale. Computed at the current rates charged for instruction at the respective colleges, Harvard will derive a revenue of $256,350 from these 1,708 students, while Yale will get but $83,580 from her 597, or an annual loss to her exchequer of nearly...
...defeated eighty-five in a very close and exciting race last spring; the other two classes not being in the race at all owing to accidents, though the result would without doubt have been the same in any case. This year they have been still further crippled by the loss of two more men, Russel and Remington; but in spite of this they have gone to work in a most praiseworthy manner, getting out all their powerful men, and straining every nerve to put a crew on the water this spring which shall repeat last year's triumphs, and enable...
Resolved, That in his loss we mourn a man of good natural talents and handsome acquirements, conciliating in his manners, generous and benevolent in his disposition, and amiable in the whole tenor of his conduct...
Resolved, That in lamenting the death of a classmate possessing such qualities, not his numerous and ardent friends only, but we as a class must deeply deplore his loss...