Word: grave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That day two bright and smiling faces were missed at chapel, and with a grave and sorrowful shake of the head the noble president communicated the fact to his wife on the platform beside him. Afternoon service has come and gone, and still two bright and smiling faces are missing...
...should use every legitimate effort to maintain English as a required study. Surely nothing is more important than that one understands as thoroughly as maybe his own language; and when the gross ignorance of English even among college-bred men is considered, it becomes a matter of grave moment that Harvard, foremost in so many things, should not be backward in undertaking a change for the better in this direction...
...have let his story stand. I am surprised to find how clear it is; how grave a case, indeed, he has made out against me. For so "the gods make mock at us," as he himself has said...
...third is a commatic chorus; and here a few words of explanation are needed. Mr. White is authority for the statement that in ordinary prose speaking, and also in metrical recitation, outside of the choruses, the syllables marked with acute accents, with circumflex accents, and with grave accents, were distinguished from one another and from unaccented syllables by a difference of pitch, confined within the interval known as a third. This difference of pitch is not wholly foreign to our own accentuation, but it was much more marked among Greeks, and resulted in a sort of sing-song tone...
...Harvard Didascaleium, and in general that we must not make the play ridiculous by intruding the obsolete. But those who have had the good fortune to be present at the performance of Tuesday or Thursday must admit that if the echoes from Sanders made Sophocles turn in his grave, it was with a sigh of relief that his immortal production had been at last freed from the conventionalities and restrictions of a Greek festival, and rendered with its full dignity, grace, and power. We went to see a piece of antiquarianism, and we came away feeling that we had indeed...