Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same category and on the same level with these evils. The sin of the scorner is, however, much more insidious, deceitful and benumbing than that of the ungodly man. To know the good and then to despise it, to yield to the contagion of irreverence, is the most hopeless of all sins. The choir sang anthems by Perceval and Barnby...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The notification in regard to room assignments, which has just been distributed with the spring bills, brings up again the old discussion in regard to getting into the yard. I am not starting the debate anew for selfish reasons. My case is hopeless, for I am a senior. Four long and weary years I have waited at the very gates of this paradise, but the fates and this pernicious system of distribution have been against me. I shall never room in the yard...
...opening article by Josiah Royce is entitled "Tennyson and Pessimism." In this essay Professor Royce endeavors to show that Tennyson has neither changed nor fallen into the hopeless and pessimistic ideas of old age, as so many have lately said, in his "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," but that he has really come to a more perfect and real understanding of the life he has had to lead. In the Locksley Hall," there was the life and aspirations of a young and romantic poet disregarding the trials of daily life and looking forward into the future, made bright...
Cambridge seemed more forlorn to the few hopeless wretches who were conscientious enough to remain here Thanksgiving than perhaps ever before in its history...
...moment, however, for '88 quickened her stroke, and with a strong, continuous spurt swept by them and finished first, amid the wildest excitement. The plucky freshmen took second place, half a length behind, and another half length ahead of the juniors. The seniors, who sandily rowed through a hopeless race, finished six lengths in the rear. The time of the winning crew was 12 m. 30 sec., and of the second, 12 m. 31 sec. Altogether the race was the most satisfactory that has taken place for years on the Charles River course. There was no accident...