Word: loss
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...carewhat-happens" state; in other words, a non-emotional existence which has its good points when compared to the headlong whirl of the nineteenth century, and those that are bad when compared to the athletic standing of rival colleges. If indifference enables men to bear defeat or loss, either in the baseball field, in football, or at the boatrace, with tolerable equanimity, or to hail victories without any outrageous demonstration, it is, and ought to be, considered a good quality. To treat a victorious or team from a rival college cordially or courteously, without showing any pique or ill feeling...
...class of '84 has again to mourn the loss of one of its most esteemed members. For, in the death of Aaron Roger Crane, not only a class but the entire college has lost a friend. He died early on Wednesday morning from heart-disease. His death was as sudden as it was unexpected, and coming so soon before his graduation it seems especially sad. He was born on March 18, 1861, his home was at Newton Highlands. He was the oldest son of Moses G. Crane. He prepared for Harvard at the Newton High School and entered the freshman...
...senior class is once more called upon to sustain the loss of one of its members, in the death of Aaron Roger Crane. The sudden death of a student within less than a month of graduation must be attended with peculiar sadness, and cannot fail to cast a gloom over the whole college. It is hard to realize that a man who seemed in such perfect physical condition should meet with such a sudden and mysterious end, and this complete unexpectedness only serves to make the event more impressive in its sadness. To those who knew Roger Crane, and they...
...Harvard and Massachusetts Hall have tarnished abundant food to the minds of half a dozen inventive genie, and plan upon plan has been handed in to make the latter building useful as well as ornamental. The few examinations held in Massachusetts cannot compensate either faculty or students for the loss of valuable space which might be used for recitation rooms. Amid the general craze for improvement the old gymnasium has come in for its share of discussion, and perhaps is the most worthy building of all to be put into active use. It is a shame that it should...
...from the library of the French department in Sever Hall. Within the last two months, several indispensable books have disappeared. Three French dictionaries, a volume of Corneile, and one of Motiere, and other books, all in daily use, are missing. The harm done is not so much the pecuniary loss as the inconvenience to which all the students of French are subjected. Hitherto they have been allowed unlimited liberties in the use of the books belonging to the French department. The reading-room has been a quiet and pleasant retreat, where all books necessary for the study of French could...