Word: losses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prospect that the dinner will be a most enjoyable affair. There will be no formality, every one will feel at his ease, and nothing short of physical disability should prevent anyone from being present. To those who do not intend to go we would say that it is their loss, nobody's else. To those who intend to go we prophecy that they will be amply repaid for their trouble...
...early death the college suffers an irreparable loss. Had he lived to complete the studies which he was carrying on, with such unflagging diligence, in the beginnings of government and legal institutions among men, it is not doubtful that he would have added much to the accessible knowledge of those subjects...
...series of lectures arranged by the Harvard Finance Club was given last evening in Sever Hall by Professor Andrews of Brown University. The speaker began by describing the great evils arising from fluctuations in the value of money. He said that falling prices may cause as much loss in the wealth of a nation as a national war. It is the inevitable tendency of gold and silver to increase in value notwithstanding the immense quantities added every year from the mines and the substitution of credit systems for money. The metals are subject to the law of diminishing returns, while...
...Tudor, 145 lbs.; 6, P. M. Rhinelander, 151 lbs.; 5, Q. A. Shaw, 149 lbs.; 4, M. Williams, 155 lbs.; 3 Van Rensalaer, 151 lbs.; 2, F. R. Bangs, 161 lbs.; bow, Parker, 146 lbs. The average weight of all the candidates is 154 pounds-a slight loss compared with former years. Their height is a trifle over the average and their age just about the average...
Princeton experienced a small fire last Friday afternoon. Witherspoon Hall, one of the handsomest and most costly of the college buildings, took fire in the room of one of the students. It was soon under control, however, and the loss will not be over a few hundred dollars...