Word: lose
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...stated that not a single College building is insured, as the Corporation think it cheaper to lose a building occasionally than to pay the annual insurance...
...HARE AND HOUNDS CHASE."Your reporter first called on Prof. Epol Rabnud (the Dhin), who, in his usual chipper style, said: 'You see, sir, it is a most unexampled case of profit and loss. If you win, you receive an H. A. A. cup! And when you lose all, you only lose a scent!' At this juncture the learned gentleman fell asleep, and your interviewer was obliged to withdraw...
MORAL: If one cribbing Freshman is spared, many Seniors lose their degrees...
...like the '80 men, and though, like '80, liberal with your money, to refuse to give yourself to class objects. But crews and theatricals and all organizations in the class must have earnest officers and hearty support from the members, or they will go to ruin. You won't lose anything by a lack of indifference; the best-liked men in the upper classes are those who do something for those associations to which they belong, and not those who are full of indifference for all except their little (ah! how little) selves...
...recently remarked that this scheme was like the great bill for "Giving Everybody Everything," and it certainly is. Everybody cannot be rewarded; if they were, rewards would lose all their worth. Half the essence of a prize is the distinction from others it conveys. By lowering the standard of the requirements for honours, we decrease the value of those prizes, and the hitherto highly valued graduation honours of Harvard College will soon degenerate to the level of the numerous prizes lavished among the classes of small-sized colleges...