Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...common with the Yale Record, the Yale Courant, and the Advocate, we have failed to meet the approval of the Cornell Times. We suppose there is nothing left for us all but death. The Times, certainly, has plenty of bodies to mangle. It reminds us of the darkey's explanation of the miracle. "Why," said he, "five thousand loaves and seven thousand fishes were divided among the twelve Apostles. Miracle was, they did n't bust!" Though, to be sure, it is rather blasphemous to compare the twelve Apostles with the Editors of the Cornell Times...
...better death than shameful life...
...Fleur-de-lys. Another book has the crowned N and the French eagle; it belonged to the First Consul. Another binding is stamped with the arms of the Dauphin. Several books contain illustrations by Holbein, and there is a fine set of engravings of the Dance of Death. There are a number of the Aldine edition dating from 1521 and onward. A book printed by Gutenberg in 1460, and one by Faust in 1462, are both older than any book the Library has hitherto contained. Another book has the date 1489, and there is a very rare edition of Plautus...
...very loath to trust to paper. Those who have passed through it know what impure and fetid atmosphere is there breathed. Innocence loses its freshness; it is the perdition of the soul, often the irreparable ruin of the body. The graces of youth rarely survive this atmosphere of death. The evil is great, so great that few dare to look it in the face; and yet how many fathers, in full knowledge of the cause, persist in sending their children as inmates of a college, knowing all the time the terrible consequences of this deplorable education...
...foot, station-houses were ground to powder, and the Owl train from New York, while running at the rate of seventy-five miles an hour, was seized by a gigantic student and hurled a distance of three miles, landing upside down in Miller's River, and terrible was the death which its passengers suffered...