Word: lost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...game tomorrow will mark the resumption of formal athletic contests with Yale on a pre-war basis. The last hockey match with the Elis was played in 1917when the University lost a series of two out of three games. This was the first time that a CRIMSON septet was defeated in a series by Yale since...
Next Monday the crew and baseball seasons open. Hockey has but two more weeks to run. The great opportunity to formulate a plan on which all sports could base their revival is almost lost. We are in danger of lapsing into a rut worse than that of the informal system of last year...
...response. Campbell, Director of the Lick Observatory, telegraphed, 'A great, unselfish man has gone. Our flag is at half-mast,' Hale, Director of the Solar Observatory, Mt. Wilson, 'Am greatly shocked and grieved, and hasten to send sincere sympathy.' Klotz, Director of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa. 'The world has lost one of its great astronomical lights, and deans of science.' Plaskett, Director of the new Canadian Observatory, at Victoria, 'The news came to Mrs. Plaskett and me as a great shock and deep personal loss. The loss to Astronomy and Science is inestimable, but all his friends will chiefly mourn...
There is a phrase which is subtly returning to a too frequent use among students in the University, it is the two-word phrase "getting by". The current vocabulary lost this unfortunate expression during the win-the-war days. Then, anyone who employed it would have been looked upon with well-founded suspicion that he was shirking his duty. The best only was expected, and the best was given unhesitatingly by all. But as President Lowell warned the Freshmen earlier in the year, "the great moral effort which this war has required will surely be followed by a period...
...lioness by the Charles has not lost her wit, and the young lions will not fail." The very homeliness of this characterization made by President Lowell is striking. Here for decades Harvard has nourished her sons, trained them in the lore of the past and directed them into the paths of the future. When the call came for men to defend this home, the young lions did not fail. 7,523 set behind them their personal desires. They left comforts and opportunities to face the most gigantic war which modern science could produce. They did not wait until convenience allowed...