Word: despairful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...give way to despair simply because he finds himself, on his yearly return to Cambridge, catalogued in a class one year behind that in which his name was enrolled the year previous. Let him the rather look upon the case of the aged undergraduate in a Vermont college, who entered with '32 and is to graduate with '85, and from the example thus set before him draw hope. It is true that some of us, who live at the rate of $1.500 a year, might object to expending such a large sum as $79.500 to attain...
...exercise, to arouse enthusiasm in vaulting, tumbling, shot-passing and other diversions. A great many go into the gymnasium, and development book in hand, proceed to follow minutely Dr. Sargent's directions, they do nothing with any life or vigor, and their Faces are as gloomy and full of despair as if they were engraved in "grinding out" a calculus lesson or making up a condition in Freshman Algelba, Careful count is kept of every motion, and when the reacquired number is reached, with frightened countenance the ropes are dropped. Such exercise is useless. Exercise to be benefit had must...
...seems to demand it, for the only actions taken by the Committee last year. were unfortunate in every way. If the present Committee, with its popularity among the students, and its personal interest in the welfare of the college cannot solve this problem, we confess that we are in despair of any further faculty regulation...
...anxious that all '88 men who can sing should attend. When it is remembered that the candidates are not required to sing an elaborate solo but are selected for the tone of their voice, their ability to read music rapidly, their attention to the time, etc., no one should despair for fear of success. The newly elected officers are determined to do their best to make the coming year one of great success for the club, and their efforts should be met at least half way by the students...
...would think that if all this were true our poor "unsatisfied molecule" would be sunk in the depths of despair. But no, there is a grain of consolation, and although we don't exactly understand, the next paragraph evidently contains this consolation. "But the world in general is mediocre-in fact an indifferently clever A. B. is not a rare occurrence. In the case of most people, the boundary line of attainment has an extremely short radius. Tearing intellects do not grow wild, and the dilution of the essence of intelligence may be attributed as the result of dividing...