Word: losses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those islands a name which they still bear, that of the Brewsters, after their Elder, William Brewster, who had been a scholar of Peterhouse in the great university in England. A year or two later, when that solitary Englishman - how he came, when and whence, we are at a loss to know - built his hut on the Shawmut peninsula, not far from where Louisburg Square now is in Boston, the old Cambridge planted here another of her sons, who had fled, as he said, from the Lords bishops, and was destined to fly once again from the Lords brethren...
...also to the gun clubs at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. Last year two matches were shot with the Dedham Club, in both of which Harvard was victorious by the scores of 67 to 63, and 109 to 91. But the club is seriously crippled by the loss of its '86 members, among whom it numbered many of its best shots. New men are therefore urged to come out and try for places on the team. Besides the outside matches the annual inter-class match between teams from the different classes will be held...
...library. Much time is necessarily wasted in hunting up the references given in the printed outlines, and one must be an habitue of the alcove for at least two or three weeks before he even knows where to find the books on the shelves. But to increase the loss of time, men take it into their heads to leave the books lying about the tables promiscuously after using them. It is tantalizing in the extreme to have men continually picking up the books to see their titles and then throw them down and rummage about in another heap. All this...
...appeared. The high standard of literary work which the '86 board maintained will not be lowered this year, if the first number may be regarded as a sample of those which are to follow. With the graduation of the '86 board, the founders of the magazine, a severe loss was sustained, which it seemed it would be impossible to make good. Indeed, it was feared that the life of the Monthly would be confined to the stay of its founders in college. But it is evident that the Monthly has won a prominent position in Harvard journalism. It is recognized...
Harvard began a second inning and had made 49 with the loss of two wickets, King, 21; and McKean, 12, both not out when the stumps were drawn...