Word: grave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard it as a sure sign that some old brigadier will need "polishing." This is a very disrespectful way to speak of burying a brave old soldier, but have we not provocation? A funeral means two hours under arms, and a tramp through the cold and snow to the grave-yard where the volley that does honor to the departed, gives us an hour's work cleaning our guns. Long life to all that in tend to be buried here...
...Articles of Agreement establish four grades of offenses; (1), deliberate falsehood; (2), grave misdemeanors; (3), major offenses; (4), minor offenses; and they also provide a penalty or penalties, for each grade...
...plunge head-long into an account of one of his many attachments. It does not describe one of the important affairs, but it is so characteristically told that I quote the letter in part: "As I have given you fair warning," he says "don't be surprised if your grave, sedate, philosophic friend, who used to carry it so high, and talk with such a composed indifference of the beauteous sex, and whom you used to admonish not to turn an old man too soon-don't be thunderstruck if this same fellow should all at once, subito furore obreptus...
...experiments were performed by one man, too much confidence must not be placed in this class. Ghosts and Apparitions. The English theory is that of mind transterence; that is, if a person thinks earnestly of another, he can cause that person to see his apparition. There is grave doubt of the reality of this class of phenomena. Spiritualistic Phenomena, (a). physical phenomena, such as table tipping; altering weight of bodies, etc.; (b), chemical phenomena, such as preserving men from fire; (c), direct writing, e. g. automatic writing of a pencil on a slate; (d), musical phenomena, e. g. automatic playing...
...that eighty-six has voted to hold another dinner, it is to be hoped that the project may be carried out successfully. Eighty-five made the attempt without success, and, we are constrained to believe, made a grave mistake in losing so rare an opportunity for an evening of social enjoyment. Class feeling is slowly dying out at Harvard, a result attributable to many causes, and class dinners are among the few things left that can momentarily rekindle the smoldering embers of the old-time enthusiasm. We shall be greatly surprised if there is any difficulty in securing fifty names...