Word: lost
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...There was but little canvassing before the election, and the attempts that had been made were, we are happy to say, completely defeated. If it seems that too small a number of offices have fallen to one society, it would be well to remember that a fuller representation was lost simply by the public spirit of its members, and the personal self-sacrifice of one of their number. Of course no one can hope to fill every office with his first choice, but as a whole the class elections must be satisfactory to every Senior, and it can be said...
...done. Although unsuccessful last Saturday, no one who saw the game can have failed to admire its pluck, and to recognize that the Team gave evidence of more faithful training than that of the past two years. The faults by which both the Princeton and Yale games were lost are such as may be corrected next year if attended to early in the season. The fact that the Yale men outweighed us, man for man, in almost every case, and yet were unable to break through our line, seems to prove that size is not an absolutely necessary element...
...clock P.M., instead of 2 o'clock, as advertised, and the last three or four contests had to be run in darkness so great the contestants were totally indistinguishable one from another. Wendell, '82, won the 100-yards and the 1/4-mile run, the former of which, however, he nearly lost, through the track at the start being so loose that he slipped and nearly fell, giving his contestants at least six yards the advantage of him. He caught the leader, however, only about five yards from the tape, F. A. Thompsen (formerly of Harvard, '82) finishing a good second. Thompsen...
...study the formations of the country around. Unfortunately, we only had a self-appointed '80 man for an instructor, but being an '80 man he was a perfect stranger there, so he was obliged to buy a compass, in order to "know where he was when he was lost." We started on Hanfield Avenue, turned up Victory Street and ascended Mount Garfield, where we could see the charming city Chelsea below us, and in the distance the blue air of Boston. The great questions to be solved were these : Do the blue waves lick the ocean? Is Chelsea built...
...Juniors have lost Bartlett, who had two years' experience as captain, and as yet the men who will row the race have not been finally chosen. About fifteen men have been training, and some good new material has been brought out. The positions are not yet decided upon...