Word: franticness
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...Drive us frantic with remorse...
Completely crazed at the sight of so unexpected a piece of good luck, the Princeton supporters burst into the field and interrupted the progress of the game by their frantic jubilation. When the field was cleared, R. Hodge readily kicked a goal. Yale men appeared completely dazed at this reverse of fortune, and though Beecher made a beautiful run when the ball was again kicked off, there was little appreciation of it among the mournful spectators. After some unimportant play, Referee Camp mercilessly called "time," and Yale was defeated for the second time since the formation of the inter-collegiate...
...been brought to the notice of generation upon generation of Harvard seniors. In fact we keep in type a full set of notices bearing on this subject, from the mild preparatory announcements which mark the entrance of new committees upon their tiresome task, to the frantic appeals which so surely denote the close of the college year. This year we admit that we have been outwitted. None of the customary notices have met the approbation of the new committee. Something more startling was demanded, and the columns of yesterday's issue contain the initiatory menace of the committee. "Seniors...
...college, and strongly approved by the leading journals of the country, we felt justly confident that this petition would produce the desired effect. But the authorities by whom Harvard is governed are not troubled by that vice of small minds-consistency. While making the most sweeping changes in their frantic haste to reach the state of "an ideal university," they do not hesitate to go to the other extreme, and retain the one relic of by-gone college discipline which, above all others, marks the primitive stage in the evolution of Harvard toward the desired end. Bachelors of Arts need...
...figure is pacing the Pont Neuf slowly and irresolutely. A human soul has been delivered over to the worm that dieth not. A sweet face is wan and pinched with agony; two wild eyes gaze down into the cold, whirling, gurgling water; there is a cry of despair, a frantic leap,-and a lost soul has rushed unsummoned to meet a just God. Next day the body is found floating, and brought to the Morgue...