Word: loss
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...running, and the athletes were not bothered quite as much by that as formerly. But although the track was in a better condition than last year, the general management of the games was very lax, some of the officials being so incompetent or prejudiced that Harvard suffered the loss of at least two events...
...club have been heavy, but a plan which has proved so successful in the past ought not to be dismissed without consideration. Inasmuch as the character of the representation promises to be of such a high order of excellence, there can be no need to fear a loss of patronage through this plan, as none but students need be allowed admission. Thus these students who desired the presence of their friends would, financially, counterbalance the students who, through the dress rehearsal be kept from attending a regular representation. The presence of the students would prepare the actors for the more...
...deeply regret our loss, and desire to express our sincere sympathy to his family in their affliction...
President Seelye says in regard to "compulsory chapel" that "it has done incalculable good for Amherst, and its omission would prove an irreparable loss. A wise person will take advantage of this privilege of chapel worship and a well bred person will refram from all disturbances of the exercise in the slightest...
...same category with other requisitions made by college authority." This is the principal argument why attendance at prayers can be required. Many reasons are given why it is inexpedient to abolish the attendance. "First and least of all is the reason that the college can ill afford the loss of reputation which would ensue on its being the first of all literary institutions in New England to abandon religious observances." Again many of the real reasons why the students desire the abolition of the attendance are unworthy of attention. Some students do not care to have their morning slumbers interrupted...