Word: losses
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spring football practice, which was to continue until the Easter recess, has been cut short on account of Captain Daly's sprained ankle. Although the loss of this last week will be felt, the main objects of the spring work have already been attained; that is, to keep the heavy men in some sort of condition, and to develop the kicking. The practice in kicking has been very encouraging, in the number of long kicks made in the games. The line men have had a good deal of drilling in the rudiments of position play and have had chances...
...death of Professor Dunbar the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has suffered a very serious loss--a loss that is irreparable for those of us who turned to him when they sought an adviser gifted with unusual sagacity, fairness of mind and quickness of sympathy. In the Faculty he held a unique position. At our meetings he spoke rarely, even while he was Dean; but when he did speak, whether in an official or an unofficial capacity, he was listened to with deferential attention, for we all knew that he weighed his words, and that what...
...proved to be the class dinner. Why should each class wait until its Sophomore year before having a large dinner of this kind? Then, too, there are many excellent men in each class who are not "discovered" till comparatively late in their College course, much to their own loss and that of their classmates. If an opportunity be given the members of an entering class to meet one another in a social and agreeable way, the chance of such a thing would be greatly lessened...
...cent. in the south, but has lost 19 3-4 per cent. in the central states, 2 per cent. in the western states and 11 3-4 per cent. in foreign countries. The most remarkable thing shown by this table is Yale's great loss in the central states, as against a considerable gain for Harvard in that section...
...Pickering's recently issued report of the Astronomical Observatory for the year ending September 30, 1899, states that, owing to the continued fall in the rate of interest in recent years, the Observatory is in urgent need of additional endowment. A decrease of one per cent. represents a loss in income of $10,000 a year. Thus in 1892 the Observatory received $53,000 income, but in 1898 only $46,000. In the words of the report: "Every few days questions are solved by means of the photographs, which without them must wait years for an equally satisfactory solution...