Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...permanent force is one watchman), who caused them to desist from their philanthropic efforts to cheer the melancholy inhabitants. Nor can I relate how, in the forlorn hope of retrieving our fallen fortunes, yet one more expedition was made in search of ducks, which nearly resulted in the death of some decoys which we had taken for the real birds. These memories are of too harrowing a nature to be given to the public, on whose indulgence I have already trespassed...
PERHAPS no community of men is less subject to the thoughts which attend a realizing sense of the inevitability and imminence of death than a college community; and this for several reasons. Of these the most important is the age of its members, to which the consideration of death is both repugnant and unnatural. All our pursuits have a direct bearing on our immediate future which they presuppose, and therefore our future as a whole is apt to find no place in our calculations. We are eminently a hopeful community. Success in some one or other of its forms seems...
...class of '74 recently passed the following resolutions on the death of two of their members...
Resolved, That recognizing in his death the hand of a Divine Providence, we yet deeply regret and mourn the early close of so promising a life...
Resolved, That in the death of our classmate we mourn the loss of a faithful friend and a true Christian, who, by a life short but faithful in good works, has made his memory dear to the many, in administering to whose needs that life was spent...