Word: lost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...third game in the Yale-Harvard series resulted in an overwhelming defeat of our Nine. The game was lost in the first inning by the poor pitching of Ernst, he being literally batted out of his position. Yale scored eight runs in this inning, off of six base-hits and a two-baser assisted by fumbles of Coolidge, Olmstead, and Cohen...
...reported that only five men in '79 lost their degrees...
...already, and have been put to soak till next year. They will bring a delicious lotus-eating element into your class, dear Freshmen. Such men never "brace." They find walking on thin ice so exciting, that they keep on trying it, and are drowned forever in the sea of lost degrees on Commencement Day. Now, if I were you, I should not, on the whole, get dropped; I admit it is rather "swell," and gives people the impression that you have come to college only because it is the proper thing, and not to learn anything or prepare yourself...
...decide to go into athletics, take rowing, for you know it has become popular, and base-ball seems to have been artificially kept alive by graduates of some years back. Don't, at all events, go to the Gymnasium, unless the new one becomes fashionable; some men have lost the First Eight, Nine, or Ten in that way. And next year send in a contribution, - barring verses on summer, roughs on the Woman's College, and complaints about Memorial Hall...
...with his card pasted in it taken from a nail near his seat, and never returned, the chances are that some student has it. Now these students must be making a rich harvest this year, for at our table alone three hats and four umbrellas have been lost, - I should say stolen. I presume that these students are in training for the position of bank-defaulters after graduation, and that they served as telegraph-boys before their entrance here, - they certainly must have had some Fagan to teach them the trade. I should recommend to the Class Day Committee...