Word: losses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...blaze in the basement of Hope College in a large waste-paper bin. A general alarm was sent out; but before aid arrived the fire had reached the roof. Eight rooms were burned out, the roof was burned, and all the other rooms in the building were soaked. The loss is about $5000 to the corporation and $1500 to the students. The losses are covered by insurance. Hope College is the oldest of the Brown buildings, and was recently remodelled at an expense...
...Virginia House has passed a bill authorizing the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia to issue $200,000 worth of bonds to repair the loss by the late fire at that institution...
...examinations themselves are a good thing or not, though their abolishment would of course solve the whole difficulty at once. Admitting that a mid-year test is valuable in every course, a few queries suggest themselves. Does the benefit gained by preparing for an examination make up for the loss of eight lectures and, in the case of those who get through with their examination early in the period, a week's study, more or less; knowing that they will have a few days in which to "work up" each of their courses, are not most men inclined to neglect...
...will be kept at work steadily until after the close of the athletic season, May 30. Yale's outlook in the track line is very good. Of the fifteen men who competed in the games with Cambridge last fall, four-Richards, Cady, Hickok and Crane-have left college. The loss of Richards will be keenly felt, as he has contributed more to the success of the team than any one man except Hickok. Burnet will be Yale's mainstay in the dashes this year. Hickok not only won more points for Yale in four years than any other...
...University that those who are most intimately connected with its administration can be but little known to the students except by reputation. But though Mr. Brimmer's personal acquaintance among the students was necessarily limited, his great service to the University, now sadly brought to mind, makes his loss come to all of us as that of a friend...