Word: deeping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Another instalment of snow has come upon the already burdened yard. The exclamations of surprise and admiration which greeted it yesterday morning are destined eventually to become cries of deepest despair, as the unsuspecting pedestrian sinks ankle or knee deep into the "beautiful snow" changed to slush. There are four things a Harvard man should not bo without, for they are essential to his college career, if he would have that career a successful one. He needs money to pay his bills, brains to get his degree, and a stout pair of rubber boots that may be strapped over...
...could be found some way by which we could all study that portion of a writer's life and works which would exactly meet the wishes of all, the complaint would be well based. But such a mean has not been discovered. We are still forced to wade, knee-deep at times, through a mass of personal reminiscences some trivial and unmeaning, others nauseous and repulsive, to arrive at a just conception of a writer, not only as an author, but also...
...Trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy, meeting at Exeter for the stated examination, on the day appointed for the funeral of the late John Langdon Sibley, desire to enter upon their records an expression of their deep sorrow at the close of this long and honored life...
...Study of Despair" reviews the "Bubaiyat" and presents the most thoughtful work of the number. Although an optimist might quarrel with many of the conclusions drawn as representing Kayyam in too dark a light, the conclusions are by no means fanciful, and are upon their face the result of deep study and clear ideas. It is a question, however, whether the Tent-maker of Naishapur can be so systematically interpreted throughout. Is it true that a thread of despair runs through the mystic lines of Omar and darkens all their thought? One long magazine article has been written upon...
...certain paper, published early last October, spoke editorially as follows: "The note of preparation has sounded busily at Harvard, and it will not be long before the students are deep in their studies. Both mind and body will soon be engaged, the former in the intellectual and the latter in the physical. It is but natural to expect that the more intellectual arts and sciences will be absorbed in unobtrusive silence, and that their achievement will not attract any notable share of public attention, and that base-ball and boat racing will be studied with a fervor which cannot...