Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thought and excellent mastery of language. The task of describing a character is accomplished without the usual effect of wearying the reader. The idea of the whole sketch resembles in a way Hawthorne's "Christmas Banquet." Two stanzas on "A Dead Girl" are full of charm; the idea of death being "beguiled" by her smile is such a one as might have occurred to Heine. A rambling poorly-told story entitled, "Leaves Picked in a Cemetery" and some book notices make up the rest of the issue...
McConkey, second baseman of the Yale nine and one of the strongest players, was called to his home in Harrisburg by the death. Monday, of his father in that city. Ex-Capt. Stewart will take his old place at second base, and McClintock, '90, or Cross, theological school, now in Cleveland, will play at third...
...years ago, and now reprinted for the first time. This alone would make the book valuable in itself, were it not already made doubly so by a verse of the lamented Loring, who "always mourned and always honored," still keeps his renown as bright as at his untimely death...
...death of the Hon. W. C. De Pauw, of New Albany, Ind., De Pauw University receives a gift of 1,500,000 dollars...
...editors of the "AEgis," an annual publication, for persisting in their refusal to give the name of the student who drew a cut for the paper in which the president figured, appears very hasty and inconsiderate. The cut in question was entitled, "Suggestions for a Chapel Window," representing the death of Ananis, with two young men carrying the body. Under the design was "1817," the year of President Bartlett's birth, "Rev. - -, D. D., LL. D." At the present stage of college tolerance, it is surprising that a bit of college pleasantry cannot be viewed in any other light...