Word: loss
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...located, and no other college in the State holds as much real estate exempt from taxation as Wellesley College. The college already holds property to the amount of $826,000 exempt, and the citizens opposed to its holding any more land, which would not only be a loss to the town by being exempt from taxation, but would forever prevent such lands from being improved...
...Brigham Young Academy at Provo City, U., a Mormom school, with four hundred students, was burned Monday night. Loss, $30,000; uninsured...
...establishment of a chair of naval architecture in this country would certainly be a novel idea. If such a professorship existed in one of our universities, its incumbent might as an expert give valuable advice to the American Congress, which at present is at a great loss to suggest a plan for resuscitating the industry of American ship-building. Such a professorship would be more appropriate however at one of our technical schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Great Britain at least has a professorship of this sort and Mr. Francis Elgar, naval architect of the city of London...
...burning of the Southern Illinois Normal University entailed a loss...
...days of the Revolution. In its corners are the dents of revolutionary muskets stacked there by the patriot soldiers. Here, also, Oliver Wendell Holmes, America's greatest wit and one of her most charming writers, was born. Loosely bound to the past and with but few historical associations, the loss of so famous a building would be irreparable. Misfortune through it be, we fear the Holmes house is doomed, and that after this year we shall never see the only monument in Cambridge which brings back our past vividly to us, and is, as it were, a link...