Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...banish gloom and bile...
...sisters are preparing her trousseau, for she has fallen in love with Antonio, an architect, and the wedding is imminent. Antonio and his bride go away leaving the nuns, especially Sister Joanna of the Cross--who has acted as a mother to the girl--plunged in deepest gloom...
...bright ray however which penetrates the gloom of the catastrophe is the fact that the proctor was not robbed. Possibly the astute burglar realized his inability to cope with such a man. Possibly he was so burdened with spoils already that he hesitated to endanger his pockets with more. But perhaps the circumstance that the proctor's door was locked had something to do with it. It appears that his was almost the only door which was locked, and to a sensitive criminal, the hospitality of the generous students who magnificently left their doors open must have been infinitely more...
Leprosaria are no longer houses of doom and gloom. The leper has a chance of recovery...
Followers of the Crimson ice team this year have not as much reason for gloom as the result of the Green raid would indicate, however, for if scores have shown anything, it is that consistency in either winning or losing holds no place among Harvard's habits this year. The Crimson has played its best games of the season against Princeton, yet in the first case the victory was foreshadowed by a 1-1 tie with the Maples, while the second time the only prelude was the B. A. A. rout. On another occasion a goal-aplece deadlock with...