Word: losses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...State the distinction drawn by Hartmann in his Philosophic des Unbewussten between hunger on the one hand, and the tooth-ache or grief at the loss of a friend on the other...
...might be an excellent policy were our specialists always to remain with us. But their stay is always limited. As a rule they play but three years at most. When they are gone, one newspaper after another takes up the cry - "The Harvard team is greatly weakened by the loss of A": "Without X Harvard has no chance at the championship": and so on ad nauseum. And often too, there is some truth in these statements. For, relying on the powers of a few men, we have made no attempt to bring out the skill which may exist in other...
...spoke at length of the tendency of science and of society to-day toward the total disuse of liquor. He then said that in college the probable cause of indulgence in intoxicants was due, not to the fear of saying "no," as is popularly imagined, but to the supposed loss or sacrifice in a social way which would be incurred. He said that he could not speak so much for college life, but he could testify for all after life that no social pleasure could ever be hindered by the non use of liquors. A man who doesn't drink...
...there is any college that can afford to reject a challenge without loss of dignity, that college is our own; by refusing Yale's demand, we show that we have no apprehension of its being said that "Harvard accepted Yale's challenge because she was afraid of being called a coward if she refused...
...have seen those genial qualities which spring from generous impulse and which cement true friendship. We remember, too, at the time, with satisfaction his deep and constant Christian faith and his active Christian influence. At the same time we feel, and desire to express a heartfelt serrow at the loss we have sustained in the early death of one in whom the promise and power of usefulness was so great, and we extend to his family the assurance of our full sympathy in this, their keen affliction...