Word: lost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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HOWARD ATHENAEUM.- "Lost in New York...
...Courtesy for other bodies often obliges the faculty to withhold information. When the faculty decided to make the freshman courses elective, the corporation and overseers, in their opinion, had to decide the matter. A member of the faculty handed the scheme to a reporter, and the measure was nearly lost, because those two bodies first heard about it through a newspaper. Many things are rightly done when good reasons cannot be given, and duty to an offender often demands secrecy in cases of discipline. To make a proper public opinion, every man should determine to believe only what is credible...
HOWARD ATHENAEUM.- "Lost in New York...
...LOST.- A check book on the Cambridge National Bank. Finder will please leave at 34 Hilton or Leavitt and Peirce...
...Foot-Ball Association was unable to present a detailed statement of its accounts for last year, as the books containing them had been lost. The general statement which was received showed that the association was in debt to the amount of $600. This case shows the importance of one of the objects for which this committee was appointed-to preserve a record of the organizations. The foot-ball season has been financially a successful one, and the association has now a handsome surplus There seems to be no reason why, with equally good management, the association may not be kept...