Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...verses of the number and are very happily conceived. "Jerusha Howe," spinster, is a good story, and stands in interesting contrast with "Roses and Cypress" in the last Advocate by the same author. In both stories the light coquetry and vanity of a pretty young girl brings on the death of her lover. This motive, always a fascinating one, is as well brought out in the hills up here in our bleak New England during the Revolution as it was in the warm sun of the Riviera. A bright poem entitled "Letters" follows this, and tells a world...
...Captain Beecher, Yale FootBall Club: Macie virtue! Bully for you! We ploughed the ground with 'em. Faculty and corporation tickled to death, and predict '92 will be the largest class ever entered. Put on my blue dressing gown, blue trousers, blue flannel shirt, and rang bell till peelers interfered. What a glorious day for Yale! Shall preach on "The Ennobling Effects of College Athletics' next Sunday. Hope the boys are sober to-night."- Timothy Dwight...
...Schliemann, the great archaeologist has signified his intention of bequeathing at his death his valuable collection at Athens to the Ethnological Museum at Berlin...
...examination, as the Evening Record averred that the debate was held last evening. He stated that the meeting in Chicago was practically over, a large part of the crowd had dispersed, and that the previous speeches were peaceable. More than half of the anarchists now under the penalty of death were away at the time the bomb was thrown. Only the first circulars made an appeal to arms, the later ones did not. The anarchists did not have a fair trial, the newspapers hounded them pitilessly and that if they are executed, the effect will be to make martyrs...
...death we lose one whose quiet, unassuming manners and strict devotion to duty had won the esteem of all who knew him. Though deeply grieved at our loss, we nevertheless feel that the all-ruling God has afflicted us in furtherance of His own wise designs for our good, and therefore we humbly submit ourselves to His will, trusting in His inflinite mercy that is ever with us, and His love that is over...