Word: losses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oval skull is usually considered the ideal in shape. A sharp skull usually marks a low mental activity, although this is not always the case. Intellect depends only in part on the size of the brain. Portions of the brain have been lost without loss of activity. The "American Crowbar Case" is the most famous, when a bar 1 1-2 inches in diameter, and 3 feet long was shot in blasting through a man's head, entering in the jaw and coming out in the forward part of the head. This man recovered. Experiments on animals show that cutting...
...before eight in the evening would have to leave his room much too soon after dinner for comfort. It is needless to say that a most abnormal development of the biceps of almost every man in college would ensue, and this, with the wasting of valuable time and the loss of the more valuable inspiration of street car literature - we refer to such meaning proverbs as "Soapine did it" - might necessitate even the closing of the college. In view of these facts we sincerely hope that the conductors and drivers of the Cambridge tramways will take serious thought before they...
...Inter-collegiate Lacrosse Association. The Yale News urges her to do so, and we have been informed that Yale has just formed a team, - at least she has ordered from the ubiquitous Brine a set of sticks and uniforms. We sincerely hope that this rumor is true. The loss of Yale from the association last year was very severely felt, and we should welcome her back this year with open arms. The series with Yale in it will be twice as interesting as it was last year, and will give a needed boom to lacrosse, which will be very welcome...
...hearth of the Library, the Gov'r. and a great number of the Court assisted in extinguishing the Fire, it being vacation no person in the college, the Fire was past stopping Harvard before it was perceived. I hope the K - g will give something to repair the loss as he has never done anything for this College yet, . . . . . . and now partly to soften your grief and alleviate your sorrow, Ile tell you the proceeding of our worthy Court the next Day, the first vote that past was for rebuilding the College at the expense of the province Imediately...
...having on the college. We know better than he that seniors go away from Harvard without religious belief, and with only a bitter hate and contempt in their hearts for the methods employed here to make them "moral." We know better than he what a spiritual waste and loss our present system carries with it. The taste of Dead Sea apples is very fresh in our mouths...