Word: grave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...found apparently dead by some jolly monks, and in spite of the fact that the body still retains its warmth, they bury it at the abbey. Some time later the monks and their merry Abbot are disturbed in their carousals by noises issuing from the grave, and they find that the slab bas fallen from its place and the grave is empty. Later in the evening when the orgy is over, the Abbot on entering his room, finds a skeleton stranger who says he is the man buried so long ago. He claims to have been buried alive, describes...
...game of foot-ball are of such a nature as to force themselves upon the attention of the spectator, and to leave behind an impression of roughness and brutality which is not borne out by facts. The casualties are usually of a sort painful for the moment, but not grave; for one serious accident, such as befell Captain Holden last week, there could probably be counted a larger proportion in base ball, in lacrosse, or even in the usual course of regular gymnastic training. But no comment is too harsh to represent the ordinary estimate of foot-ball...
...lack of fire-escapes on college buildings is a stale subject of animadversion. There are other opportunities of danger equally grave if less palpable; and chief among these is the abominable system of washerwomen which prevails here...
...more than its due reward in the pleasure and experience gained. Therefore, eighty-nine, let us all hear more from you; you have a large field to pick from in the four Harvard papers and your ideas can find expression somewhere if they are worth reading, whether merry light, grave, or newsy. And, ninety, let this same paternal reprimand fall deep into your timid hearts; for what has been said of eighty-nine applies to you as well...
...Schooler, Dean of the Iowa Medical College, has been arrested for complicity in a grave robbery...