Word: homesick
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...great gathering place of the nations of the world; the manhood of America gathered there; many homesick, some distressed in mind, all facing issues of life and death and wondering about things they had never wondered about before,--there is an opportunity for army chaplains, for the Y. M. C. A. and for other up building forces, like of which has scarcely ever been seen...
...ponds and streams by the roadside beyond Columous there was a good deal of skating and many of the following seemed homesick at the sight of it. But the train sped on to Cincinnati. Here it arrived at scheduled time, six o'clock. The concert was very disappointing in every way. So few people knew of it in time, that the Glee Club sang to a mere handful in the centre of the hall while the lonesome tones beat themselves to pieces on the empty chairs way off in the galleries. After the concert, barges carried the Clubs...
...been received from the writer's class mates, - from which we gather that the freshman class have not given a contract to young Hopeful to write in their behalf. Alas, ye wicked generation of upperclassmen. How can you be so unsympathetic and cold of heart to the orphaned and homesick nursling who thus appeals to you for love and aid. For consider that perhaps by gentle treatment after a few short years, you may so improve their tender spirit that he will lose the greenness and lack of commonsense which tempts him to give instruction to men older, wiser...
...primary cause of this treatment was the false reports of the Chinese officials in this country, which were aggravated by the avarice of subordinate officials at Shanghai, who sought their own personal gain at the boys' expense, and in one case ran off with their money. The boys are homesick for America. Their relatives taunt them with being "foreign devils." One of them writes: "I wish I could return to dear, philanthropic New England, where teachers are better than mothers, where friends are better than sisters, and classmates more agreeable than brothers." - [Cambridge Tribune...