Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...United States. Homesickness, which the medical authorities have dignified as a distinct disease under the title of nostalgia, must affect hundreds of the soldiers in its most acute form. If the people at home will send the boys something to remind them that they are not forgotten, something to impress them with the hearty sympathy of the American people for the men who are fighting their battles, they will do an act of duty as well as charity. In the days of the civil war the arrivals of boxes from home were the most joyful events of the southern camps...
...seems hardly necessary to impress Seniors with the importance of their meeting this evening. The question of giving up the old Tree Exercises is one to which the committee have given the most careful attention, and they are convinced that the changes they recommend are in the interests of the class. It is our earnest hope that whatever action is taken it will be after careful consideration and for the best...
Seniors are reminded that all designs for Yard, Memorial and Tree tickets must be in by April 15. As very few designs have been received the committee wishes to impress upon all those trying that the time remaining is very short...
Among the book reviews is a somewhat testy criticism of "Harvard Episodes" which is likely to impress the average reader as rather overdone...
These qualities, combined with the geniality of his nature, and his sympathy with his fellows, made him one of the best teachers of mature minds we have ever had, a personal type and example of what a Graduate School should be. Our School will long retain the impress of his scholarly nature...