Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college meets today in deep sorrow. The sad accident of Monday is very near to the minds of us all. Shaw was one of those men whom the college can least afford to lose,-a man to whose future all his friends looked for ward with the greatest interest and the most lively expectation. Of remarkable ability, of singular courage and determination, he held a very high place in the respect and esteem of both his instructors and his contemporaries in college. His presence on the football field last year and in the boat this spring made his figure familiar...
...plot of the story is slender and not particularly original, but the author counterbalances this by some truly excellent bits of description and character delineation. The old village doctor of Milford stands vividly before us, and the quiet humor of the first part stands in striking antithesis to the deep patnos of the latter part of the tale...
...Balliet, 166 lbs., is short and therefore has to reach too far to keep up with the other men, buries oar too deep in the water at the finish, and is slow to start on recover...
Shaw is not quick enough at the catch, carries his oar too deep, and kicks his slide back before throwing his shoulders...
...duty to attempt to communicate to those upon whom the blow of his death has fallen with even greater weight than upon us, his fellows, some idea of the deep sympathy which we have for them in their sudden and overwhelming trouble...