Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...deep gloom has been cast over the University by the accident which befell Rowley Shepardson, of the freshman class, on Saturday afternoon, resulting fatally yesterday. With several companions he had gone gunning along the canal, and, in pushing off a boat in which he had placed his gun half-cocked, caused the gun to go off, the whole load entering his body. He was taken to the infirmary and given the best medical attention, but death came on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Shepardson's home was in Richmond...
...system, and in a covert way advances the ideas of socialism. Like much else that has been written, it treats the world as being all wrong, all employers being grinding oppressors and all poor men injured and down-trodden. The general impression left by the book is one of gloom and foreboding...
...light and leave the gloomy forest depths behind, begins to ascend the mountain, when he meets a spotted leopard, which makes him retreat downward again. Three times he struggles to reach the summit, and three times he meets raging animals, and is forced back again into the darkening gloom. In utter despair he is wandering about the great crags at the foot of the mountain, when he meets a stranger, who reveals himself to Dante as the poet Vergil, who tells him that in order to reach the light they must first go through the depths of Hell, and offers...
...matter how plucky a team may be, it is bound to be influenced more or less by the loss of the game which it was most anxious to win. The present victory, however, will tend to take away the sharpness from last Saturday's defeat, and to scatter the gloom which would have followed had the Yale game been the last of the season. The first of our series of games with Pennsylvania has resulted very successfully for us, and we can only hope that we may have the same luck with her teams in the future that Yale...
...reason, and had not regained it when he was carried from the field later in the game. Although he caught the next inning, he was not in condition to do so, and luckily did not have to come up behind the bat. This unfortunate occurrence cast a gloom over the whole of the rest of the game, and seemed to take all the life out of the players...