Word: lose
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Secretary. It was decided to play a few games this autumn, if possible, and practise daily on the Common. Work in the gymnasium will begin as soon as the weather is too cold for outdoor playing, and will continue all winter. It looks now as if the Nine will lose but one of their old men. The batting averages and fielding record for '75-'76 are as follows...
...those who enjoy the privilege of voluntary recitations must get fifty per cent of the maximum mark. In other words, a Senior who has a hundred per cent next February on the half-year's work in three of his electives, and but forty-nine in his fourth study, loses his degree. Sixty per cent is not the average required, as has been reported, but the Senior who gets a degree without an average of sixty for the year will have calculated with marvellous closeness. The plan, in fact, is to have our last year made up of "all work...
...have made careful inquiries concerning the intended working of the law; that we have been told by one of the authorities that a man who had forty-nine per cent in one mid-year examination, even if he had eighty or a hundred in all other studies, would lose all his chance for a degree that year; and, finally, that the opinions upon the subject, expressed in an article which we print in another column, are the opinions of the Crimson...
...abolish prayers. Day after day passed, and it grew into certainty. One of our college rulers, a man of great learning and influence, was earnestly advocating it; and by the strength of his will seemed likely to succeed in putting an end to them. I was in despair; to lose at once four ringings of the bell a day, - I could not bear the thought, for those were the pleasantest times of all. My grief became anger; my anger grew into hatred of the man who was so cruelly depriving me of an innocent pleasure. At last there came...
...Some men, when they go in a saloon, become intoxicated and commence fighting, and perhaps kill one another, or get their eyes knocked out, or their teeth punched down their throat. Some men, when they go in a saloon, do not get drunk, but gamble and lose all of their money. It would be better for them to stay at home; for the bar-room is the place...