Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...advocating it; and by the strength of his will seemed likely to succeed in putting an end to them. I was in despair; to lose at once four ringings of the bell a day, - I could not bear the thought, for those were the pleasantest times of all. My grief became anger; my anger grew into hatred of the man who was so cruelly depriving me of an innocent pleasure. At last there came a fatal evening when there was to be a final meeting of our rulers on the question, and it seemed certain that my enemy would...
...show which was the better crew of the two. The boats crossed the line at the finish full of water, and with their bows almost even, Wetmore's crew leading the other by perhaps a foot. Several of the crews which went down to see the race came to grief on account of the roughness of the water. In making their landing at the Union Boat House, the Holyoke four swamped, much to the discomfiture of the coxswain. The Freshman crew was swamped some distance from the shore, and for a few moments the stroke of the crew, Mr. Littauer...
...dictum is final. No more will the Portfolio call up the wonted raptures, but still it comes monthly to insult my grief. I give it up. Hereafter I shall consign myself to the "odors of Araby" which haunt Boylston Hall, and the mercies of the Higher Mathematics...
...TENDER-HEARTED Freshman saw a man weeping violently before University yesterday, and inquired the cause of his grief. "Alas, young man," responded the editor, - for such he was, - "beneath those stones lies buried my favorite brevity...
...grief may lighten if I share...