Word: coldly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dark sea of misery and crime, which was so near them. We give a man the name of drunkard or tramp, said the general, and then turn away in disgust and think we have done with him. Yet the tramp is still a man; he can feel cold and the gnawing pangs of hunger; he is still suffering and in need of sympathy. There are three classes of people whom the Salvation Army means to labor for. The first is the destitute, hungry and distressed; those who are forced from poverty to live in the slums. The second...
...measles have not yet made their appearance among the student body but the regular time for the latter is approaching. The usual experience is to have from forty to fifty cases of measles from the last of February to to the end of April. The first symptoms are a cold in the head and a sore throat. Students that have these symptoms should be careful, while the nature of their case is uncertain, to keep themselves isolated as much as possible from their friends. Above all, they should be particular about keeping out of card games of all kinds...
This winter there have been a few cases of grippe and great many cases of tonsilitis with marked grippe symptoms, but they were of short duration. They are generally the result of exposure in cold or wet weather. There have been four or five cases of typhoid fever, which were apparently unconnected with outside cases, but only one was very serious. In the list of non-contagious sicknesses there appear several cases of appendicitis and two of nervous break-down. The latter is due to the tendency of students to cut down their sleeping time from nine...
...more than mere affection towards Polyeuctes; she is utterly blind to the greatness of his character. But in the prison scene after Polyeuctes has made his offer of sacrifice, Pauline for the first time seems to feel the grandeur of his being, it is no longer in words of cold sympathy, but with vehement love, that she addresses...
Graduate Club.Mr. John Fiske was prevented by a cold from addressing the Graduate Club last evening. In his absence Professor Palmer favored the club with a very interesting discussion of the possibility of providing for the increasing growth of Harvard by resorting to any division of the students or of the executive boards, or to a separation of the departments. He pointed out the difficulties which stand in the way of the adoption here of any such university system as the English, and expressed his opinion that the Harvard system could be continued here consistently with the accommodation of whatever...