Word: losses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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John Ferguson, a rugged old Iris farmer with pure faith in the Biblical doctrine of "turn the other cheek, awaits the destiny which God has is store for him. Neither the impending loss of the house in which he has live all his life, nor the assault on his daughter, Hannah, by the brute Henry With row, who is going to foreclose the mortgage, shake him from his trust. When he believes Jimmy Caesar, the neighbor hood coward and a rejected suitor of Hannah, to have killed Withrow, his only feeling is one of sorrow that revenge has been taken...
...continued, "I am strongly tempted to send my son, Stephen Leacock, Jr., to Harvard if for nothing else than for the advantages he would gain by living in those dormitories. In Canada our universities have no such community buildings and I have never been more strongly impressed by our loss than today when I first saw the dormitories here...
...Suppression of any sort is a consequent loss of originality. Even though the obnoxious idea in question is momentarily crushed, and the man who advanced it is discharged, there is a doubly evil effect--the question is brought into greater prominence than before, and others professors find themselves afraid to step at all beyond the limits of complete conventionality. For fear of suppression they dare not carry on their work nor their investigations...
...With the loss of but one game, the Freshman team last Saturday brought its season to a successful conclusion by its 10 to 7 victory over the Yale yearlings at New Haven. Far lighter than the usual Freshman team and greatly handicapped by a series of injuries, 1923 has had an uphill struggle during the entire season. Every team the Freshmen faced out-weighed them with the exception of Groton, yet they managed to roll up 91 points to their opponents...
Despite the loss of several men through injuries, the second team won its final game the following week from the U. S. Submarine Base of New London by a score of 17 to 7. L. Crosscup Occ., D. Angier '22, and B. Hunneman '22 were the individual stars in this game...