Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mind and restoring it at length to the soul. This is a grander conception than any other ancient religion. These woodmen the Brahmins call God by three different names. "Sut," meaning being; "Chit," intelligence; "Anando," bliss or joy. Good authorities state that the Hindoo religion is dark and despairing, but this is not so. For this pessimistic idea springs not from despair but from disdain. In the spirit of divine ecstacy the Buddhist and Brahmin put aside pleasure of existence, trying to see the unseen. For when one was promised everything that life can give, he refused, but demanded...
...athletic defeats. Some men, however, have seen more deeply, and have struck at the real cause both of Harvard's indifference and her want of success. Athletics are free from artificial and injurious restraint, and a vigorous hope of success is taking the place of a growing despair that Harvard would ever again win victory. There is no need to urge earnestness on the part of those trying for the nine or crew, for the spirit of it is in the very air. We would, however, encourage the timid who have not full confidence in their own abilities...
...effect and the faculty seemed to be powerless to stop the commencement festivities. Students were time and again warned against having plum cake in their rooms, and one poor fellow suffered dire punishment because he tried to evade the law by having plain cake. At last the authorities in despair took to scheming. They voted that commencement time should be changed, and that it should be more private than usual, and that the day set apart for this anniversary should be concealed until almost the time for its observance, so that the students could not make preparations for the festivities...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The refinement of torture, the nightmare of the Mid-years, 36 per cent. is a thing of the past. E may bring despair, but not such exasperation. On the other hand, the uncompromising grind finds himself in A side by side with a lucky and judicious sport. It can no longer be said absolutely, "If you are good you will be happy but you won't have a good time." A premium has been taken off that mid-year knowledge - if knowledge it can be called - which is useful in the examination room and nowhere else...
...subject. It is a matter of interest to all. Everybody has had some experience with the coy willfulness of those faucets and pipes. Everybody knows what a delight it is to linger shivering and half-frozen, waiting for a drop or two of warm water, and finally in despair to dash under the ice-cold stream in place of something more agreeable. And everybody knows that it is the proper thing to complain of the gymnasium officials. But everybody does not know that in the present condition of affairs it is impossible to supply an adequate amount of heated water...