Word: grave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with electric light and thrown into sharp relief. Far beneath us twinkle the lights of Heidelberg, from whose distant streets a gentle murmur is upborne. About us are throngs of students in their bright colored caps; old veterans are clasping each other's hands and recalling by-gone days; grave professors grow ruddy and boyish; the younger students sing snatches of college songs; and limitless beer is flowing, together with Rhine wine as yellow and bright as fluid gold, hoarded for many a year in sunless vaults. Glee, good fellowship and merrymaking are the order of the hour...
...lamentable carelessness in the manner in which many speeches are delivered. Likewise, the substance of many speeches is either totally irrelevant to the subject, or else the old attempts at witticisms which were considered hackneyed in the college days of our grandfathers are resuscitated, and in their grave clothes are trotted out to the rostrum in Sever 11. If, however, we are wrong in our conception of the situation, we would like to ask the management of the Union why it is that Law School men and many members of the upper classes who once were prominent in the Union...
...common life, have the habit of leaving the lecture room immediately after the roll call. They thus get the credit of going to a recitation, and still spend the hour as they like. Unhappily they do not seem to realize that in their conduct they are guilty of grave discourtesy to the instructor, - a discourtesy which does not come from gentlemen. Then in addition, a man who follows this method shows a lamentable lack of courage. If he wants to spend his hour away from a lecture, the way to do it is to cut, and not to sneak...
...Because the cow-slips about, and the little buds are shooting every-where." It is spring, but, in spite of the warm weather, it is also the fit time for overcoats, as the tailor says. April is a deceptive maid, and lures many an unsuspecting youth to an early grave by her enticing suggestions to lay aside the winter garments. It was only yesterday morning that a large choir of coughers sang an inharmonious accompaniment to the minister's words, and then attempted to drown out the voice of the heavy basses and the airy, melodious tones...
...coffin was then lowered into the grave, which the sextons filled, and at the head was placed the following epitaph in white letters on a black board...