Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When William C. Lanc, thirty years librarian of Harvard College, resigned from his post two days ago the University lost one of its most valuable servants. For forty-one years Mr. Lane has continually worked for the good of the library, with but six years intermission, when he served as librarian at the Boston Athenaeum, from the time he entered its service in 1881, until when he resigned last week...
...nominee, named Oscar De Priest, was by no means the unanimous choice of his fellow blackamoors. William L. Dawson, a Negro who had run against Representative Madden in the April primary and lost by less than 12,000 votes, promised to contest Mr. De Priest's nomination in court. Up-and-coming younger Negroes said that Oscar De Priest was the oldtime Uncle Tom type, not well suited to represent the modern negro in Congress. There was, moreover, a vice-graft shadow on the De Priest record as a member of the Thompson machine, in which he had functioned...
Disinterested students of New York's subway jam noticed things which seemed lost sight of in the legal-political confusion. I. R. T. officials admitted that a 7-cent fare would not eliminate the almost homicidal crushes on the I. R. T. at rush hours. Why, wondered economists, would it not be to the city's and the I. R. T.'s mutual advantage to allow more than one fare, keeping a 5-cent minimum? The London Underground and the Paris Metro and Nord-Sud sell tickets of various classes. Why not have 10-cent or even...
...other coach has turned out as consistently fine crews as Leader. He lost two races last year: one to Harvard, when a Yale man "caught a crab," and one to Princeton, through overconfidence. The Yale crew did not raise its beat until it was inside the flags marking the last quarter mile and even at that it finished within a few feet of the winner. If it had not been for these two slips Leader would have a record of six years without a defeat. He is efficient because he is absorbed in training a crew to row, without considering...
...only match won by the Engineers came when Arthur Ingraham '30 found Wigglesworth of M. I. T. too strong for him and lost 6-2, 6-2. The other five singles and all three doubles matches were easily won by the University...