Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remains, but its spring is gone.--just where we cannot say. A song without a soul--that is too much! So the engineers are going to bury the song with what fortitude they can muster. They must put it where the spectre can never escape to bring misery and dismay to the feast. Then perhaps, time which cures all ills will allow the feaster to forget that their glasses contain nothing but Bevo...
...some criticism. The writter construes your editorial of October 14th to be "an index of the degenerate times in which we live", while in point of fact it is an index of the degeneracy of Holyoke House. Those who have lived there are unlikely to share in the "consternation, dismay, and incredulity" with which the student body is alleged to have received the editorial in question...
Consternation, dismay, and incredulity mark the reception by the student body of your hot-headed editorial in the issue of October 14th on the shortcomings of Holyoke House. Never before has such vituperation been maliciously hurled at this ancient and venerable structure. And the fact that it now invites such groundless criticism can only be construed as an index of the degenerate times in which we live. For countless years, Holyoke House has sustained the loyal allegiance of students fortunate enough to have rooms there, and testimonials of praise are on the lips of all who live to remember...
...flaw in his character. Scraft remains loyal to an ill-chosen wife who possesses no lure whatever for him. Finally his virtue engenders a slow hatred and we are permitted to watch him approach destruction. The tragedy is off the stage; the audience is left without catharsis and in dismay at the outcome. Mr. LaFarge happily prefers to prefers to preserve to us a good man and rescues him from the lure of piracy through the good offices of Sentimental Jack, Captain of the Pirates. A young Frenchman falls among thieves. Another Frenchman, a Yank, a Portuguese and an African...
This fall, more noticeably than ever before, has the interest of the nation been turned to the struggle between colleges on the football field. One reason, perhaps, is that football has been able in many cases to neutralize the dismay caused by the baseball scandal...