Word: gloom
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Within the last few weeks, a cloud of post-war penury has filled the University's financial skies. Although this gloom seems to be a necessary evil, the Harvardman's pinched purse has already caused him to take another look at the value of the departmental advising system. The General Education Report has recognized the weaknesses as well as the potentialities of a function loosely designed as the left arm of tutorial, but most of its pregnant recommendations for worthwhile advising have fallen still-born. While the problem has always been an especially difficult one, the present inadequacy of many...
...need not have worried; the critics were "kind"; Kuniyoshi's artist friends, who call him "Yas" (for Yasuo), were jubilant. What gloom there was, and there was plenty, emanated from the pictures themselves...
Bill Rickenbacker, number one man on the team, was only a hole behind Dick Kinchella when the deepening gloom cut the match short at 6:30 o'clock. Kinchella was last year's New England Intercollegiate champion...
...greatest fop and dandy of his age, Christopher Sykes was, in dress and person, a work of art-but a work of art peculiarly Victorian. "Where the fops of other ages took the butterfly as their model, he found inspiration in heavier matter. Dignity, majesty, and beautiful gloom, rather than brilliant skimming coloured parabolas, provide the keynote of his style." With his tall, elegant stoop and long golden beard, Christopher had the aspect of a late Roman emperor, and it was this aspect, apparently, that on one fateful occasion tempted the jovial prince to empty a glass of brandy...
After six weeks of darting around in the dusty gloom of Briggs Cage, three score and ten assorted baseball and lacrosse players surged out onto soggy Soldiers Field yesterday and threw the ball around...