Word: loss
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fear also of some upper classmen, is that of surreptitiously "appropriating" the signs of Cambridge tradesmen. As long as this annoyance was limited to our hereditary extortioners, we were content to pass over the transgression in silence. When, however, our esteemed contemporary, the Lampoon, is subjected to a loss by the mania for decorative signs and shingles, it is incumbent upon us to protest against the extension of this line of business. In a communication to the CRIMSON, the editors of the Lampoon have stated their grievance. They are robbed of a considerable sum of money by the diminished sale...
...have to pay rent next year, the directors felt sure at the beginning of this year, that the society would not get through next year, paying rent, unless it were made so successful this year as to leave a net surplus of stock, and thus avoid the embarrassment and loss resulting from a surplus stock encumbered with debts. Their choice lay, therefore, between making this year merely a repletion of last year, and consequently, seeing the society in danger of dying at the beginning of next year, (and the society has been in such danger at the beginning of every...
While we feel what a fearful loss the death of co operation would be to Harvard, nevertheless we do not propose to defend the management of the Co-operative Society. If the machine has been enlarged beyond the demands of the students, those are to blame who enlarged it. If there are only 790 men in college who care enough about their money to go to the trouble of buying where they can buy cheapest, then the directors were quality of an error of judgment when they counted on there being more than a thousand such men. But we shall...
...death of Professor Eustis, the university has sustained a serious loss and one which it will find it hard work to repair. Having received an education at the two leading sets of learning in their respective departments and a practical knowledge of his calling both as an officer and professor in the army, be was well qualified to accept the position of professor to which the university saw fit to call him at the inception of a Scientific department. For more than thirty years he has filled the position with credit to himself and the university. Few, indeed, can show...
...George Goldie, for 14 years instructor of gymnastics at Princeton, has resigned his position to take the superintendency of the New York Athletic Club His loss will be felt keenly by the students, among whom he had become very popular...