Word: lossing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Macvane in Har. Mo. XII, p. 2.- (b) Harvard is not injured by maintaining present standard of the A. B. degree.- (I) No considerable number is kept away by the four years course. (x) Number of undergraduates has trebled since 1860: Min. Rep., p. 18.- (2) No loss of prestige.- (c) Advatages of three years system are already secured without value of degree being lowered.- (1) Students may now enter professional schools after three years' work.- (x) Those who need to do so may now secure their degree in three years.- (d) Time of preparation for college should be shortened...
...over deaths: Canon Taylor, The Great Missionary Failure, Fortnightly Review, Vol. L (October, 1888).- (c) Most conversions are but temporary-(x) Either they lapse upon departure of the missionary to some other station-(y) Or they help to swell the reports of some more lavish missionary society,- (d) The loss of Christian lives is not repaid by the doubtful gain of heathen souls.- (x) The wives and children of the missionaries rarely survive the deadly climates, plagues and famines...
...looting of the Arequipa observatory which was reported some months ago, was much exaggerated. Some savages broke into the instrument shelter on Misti summit and stole two instruments. This was the only loss suffered...
...effect which was actually produced, however, disturbed every mint in Europe. We have to read the accounts of the scarcity of this or that metal with a certain degree of incredulity; because the people of that time believed the overflow of one metal was an actual loss to the country, although it really had beneficent effects...
...report before us shows that the student interest has fallen off amazingly during the last two years, so much so as to make it a matter of doubt whether the team shall have a training table this year. We are at a loss to account for this lack of interest in the athletic team, which is certainly unmerited. But whatever may be the reason for it, one thing is plain, it must not continue. The prospects for turning out a good team are excellent, and they must not be dwarfed by a lack of enthusiasm on the part...