Word: losses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certainly not great and they find the appearance of things much as it was when they left town in June. The first noticeable difference is that made by the removal of the old Holmes house, so long a familiar landmark to every college man. Its disappearance is both a loss and a gain, so that the old adage : "It is an ill wind" etc., holds true. The antiquaries much deplore the breaking up of the ancient dwelling with its many historic associations, and even the thoughtless student as he passes the site now vacant cannot but have a little regret...
When it was announced last year that Dr Sauveur had decided to remove his "School of Languages" from Amherst to Burlington, Vt., much regret was expressed by townspeople and students at the loss of such a fine opportunity for linguistic study. To fill the need thus felt, Prof. Montague, determined to start another school in its place, although with some doubt of its paying expenses the first year. The result, however, more than justified his venture. Over two hundred pupils were gathered, and the session was most profitable and interesting. Great praise is due to Prof. Montague for the admirable...
...death of Aaron Rogers Crane the members of the senior class feel that they have lost a sincere friend, an earnest worker, and a Christian gentleman, -faithful, simple, pure; all who knew him were strongly attracted toward him, and his untimely end is felt as a personal loss; and the class desires to pay honor to his many noble qualities, to mark them as examples of manly virtue, and to tender its heartfelt sympathy to his parents in this their bitter hour...
...mind of the future collegian as to which he will choose. It has been urged more than once both by authorities and outside observers that the large classes now entering college injure it both intellectually and socially more than they benefit it pecuniary, and that the now almost total loss of class fellowship is working a bad effect upon the majority of men who graduate. Unfortunately this is too true. In the smaller establishments of learning where the classes are limited to one hundred or less, the men amalgamate, so to speak, together, and the metal of their mind...
...hunting rifle." Improvements are, however, continually being made, and it is probable that, in time, such a rifle will be produced. The great trouble with American rifles is their low velocity. Every rifle yet made of long range and of great penetration, seems to have been at a proportionate loss of its short-range efficiency. At one hundred and fifty and two hundred yards, the average distance of game shorts, it is important that the trajectory should be as flat as possible, and a rifle which will kill at a much greater, invariably has at the shorter, distance too high...