Word: deaded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the vacation Conway R. Brown, of the freshman class, while laboring under temporary aberration of the mind, shot himself dead at the house of a friend whom he was visiting in Providence. The deceased was a son of Henry W. Brown of Worcester. He traveled for several years in Europe and was an attendant at the German schools, but prepared for college at Exeter Academy. He was a bright and promising young man, universally liked, and his early death will cause sorrow to a large circle of friends and class-mates...
...multiply examples of this "babble of Dead Sea apes." The old hurrah is obsolete, and, so far, as our colleges are concerned, what sounds like the incoherent ravings of idiocy has taken its place. This is a very sad state of things. Our future as a nation will be gloomy indeed unless we abandon the "rahs," the "rockets," and the idiotic sentences which have taken the place of the old mouth-filling and earappalling hurrah. We shall deserve no respect at the throats of hurrahing nations, and we shall even be despised by the Frenchman, who although he tries...
Prof. Youmans declares that the study of dead languages has been the one pre-eminent and historic failure of so-called liberal education...
...point a yard in the rear of the Moseley Harrier. A clipping spurt on the part of the last-named nearly brought him to Cowie's shoulder, the L. A. C. man. to our thinking, just breaking the worsted first by about six inches. The flat, however, was a dead heat. Philips finished third, a yard behind. It was subsequently arranged that Cowie and Ritchie should settle the question at Birmingham. Time 10 1-4 s. Conflicting rumors as to the state of Cowie's health have been prevalent for some time past. We must admit that he hardly looked...
...millionaire in Philadelphia who indorses the views of Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., about the dead languages, says that he lives in the most convenient place in the city, for "the horse-cars run pro and con on his street." [Harper...