Word: despairful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these 250 years of struggles and hopes and fears and aspirations, of doubts and dreads, of men's conflicts with themselves, of men's coming to the knowledge of themselves, of solitudes and of associations, of gains, of faith, and of losings of faith, of triumphs and of despair, or temptations and of ecstacies; and it is out of all this hovering like a great crowd rising like a great exhalation from over the long history of Harvard College and its generations of men, that slowly, mysteriously, but at last very clearly there shapes itself as we look...
LETTER FROM THE ANNEX.EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Is the CRIMSON in need of any items? My news is insignificant, but perhaps it will do for a despair corner...
...there ever was a perfect performance, the rendering of the overture deserves to be called perfect. So vividly were Manfred's sorrows, his despair and noble defiance of fate brought before the listener that when the last low notes died away it seemed a shame that the illusion should be destroyed. Liszt's symphonic poem was given with the usual success, and seemed to be the most popular number on the programme...
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...
...those men who have a decided bent in some direction and who are never tormented by the thought of their future occupation. College is the place to try men's capabilities and to point out to them their special talents. But unfortunately at graduation many students are in deeper despair and doubt than they were on entering college. Why is this? The trouble largely lies in their ambition. They desire to excel in what they attempt, a natural and honorable ambition. But they see on every hand scores of men abler than they in the very direction in which they...