Word: losses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ended the season with a clean record of victories. This year the example has been followed yet more conscientiously in regard to the training, and the success of last year has had the effect of bringing out some raw material. The team, however, has been much hampered by the loss of several of the '97 eleven, and could hardly have been expected to come up to its standard. As a matter of fact though, they have done remarkably well, have defeated several strong elevens, and gave the champions a close rub on Monday. They have had to compets with colleges...
...unconditional moral support." How this extraordinary task is to be accomplished he explains with the utmost lucidity. The undergraduates are to contribute to the "austere and thoughtful academic influence" of the University by refusing to enlist until a call shall be received to which they can, without loss of dignity, respond. Meanwhile, the fighting shall be left to fellows whose fathers did not happen to send them to college, and who, if they happen to be shot or to die of yellow fever, will be no great loss to the republic. The Harvard men who have already gone are described...
...places in the Republic should be the quickest to respond to its call for service. Perhaps we were misled by General Charles Lowell's reply to the man who proposed a regiment of gentlemen in the army: "What do you mean by 'gentlemen,' Drivers of gigs?" As to the loss of dignity from eagerness to serve, we had an idea that Colonel Shaw actually "scrambled" up to his place on the Ft. Wagner rampart, where the bullet found him, and where our reverent fancy will keep him forever...
...Class Day Officers, as "scrambling for a landing in Cuba" under a "morbid impulse for personal excitement." Perhaps it is becoming for men who have been so fortunate as to receive the best education the country can give, to openly taunt patriotic fellow-countrymen by assuring them that their "loss by yellow fever will mean much less to the country than ours...
...state of the undergraduate exchequer when the last month of the college year is reached, usually does not warrant any attempted assessment beyond the customary duns of omnipresent 'Varsity and class crew managers. The strait of the Weld Boat Club after the loss incurred on the day of the unfortunate races was unforsseen, however, and necessitates not only the co-operation of the club members but the help of the College at large...