Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...indeed in the very midst of the stern realities of student life, and, just as naturally, we are somewhat prone to resent any attempts to impose any extra work upon our already overburdened shoulders. But just at this critical time, the Juniors and Sophomores are fiddled with dismay at the announcement that a theme will be required from them on Wednesday next. Well, the ingenuity displayed by our instructors in selecting inopportune moments for springing work upon us is proverbial, and the present instance will probably occasion no surprise among our undergraduates...
...college life; so quiet, so peaceful, so free from care." This thought has hardly passed through our minds, when a horrid noise re-echoes from the wall, rolling from story to story with wild clamor; at last it dies away, and when silence reigns again we gasp, with dismay, "What on earth was that?" "That," says Snodkins, taking his cigarette from his lips, and blowing fragrant little rings of smoke into the air, "that is a man who bought a drum before the election, and who practices it yet; sounds rather loud in the well, doesn't it?" Loud...
...courses they have been deficient and need to pay most attention to during second half-year. On the other hand a student may have valued his work in the examination room too highly and be tempted to slight a course in favor of others, until he learns to his dismay that he has been marked lower than the figures he coveted, when it will be too late for him to recover his lost ground. In some courses the work of correcting papers is very great and some delay cannot be helped, but it should be the design of instructors...
...Social Science Congress, says a writer in a recent English periodical, the other day, a learned man speaking of education versus health, described in the most earnest language the sorrow and dismay he experienced after visiting the colleges of Newnham and Girton...
...seems as if the public press would never cease from its attacks on college students. This time it comes from Philadelphia in a newspaper called the Times. "For several years the public has noted with dismay the gradual decay of the ancient safeguards which stringent discipline was supposed to throw about the educational pathway of the young and rising generation," moralizes the Times. "The moral of college government is greatly relaxed, and our venerable eleemosynary and other institutions of learning are fast becoming the theatres of disorder and excess." This paper then makes the rather remarkable statement that "Harvard, Yale...