Word: marrow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many graduates who now feel the same deep and lively interest in college athletics which stirred them to their very marrow and nerved them to their utmost endeavor in every contest during those fast flying years when they were themselves at old Harvard, there is apparent today throughout the University, an explicable feeling that is in the very air of Cambridge; among the men on the various athletic teams as well as among the undergraduates at large. A lifeless, listless attitude toward everything; a "we can't-help-it" spirit that is sickening. In short a total lack of real...
...sophomore year arrives, and one eventful night Y, the butterfly, is informed that he has been advanced a grade in the social scale. He emerges from his room the next morning with a fine feeling of self-satisfaction tingling in his spinal marrow. He feels it necessary to show his importance to the world. On his way to breakfast he meets X, but instead of bowing he looks intently at a scrap of paper in the street, or tries to "read the answer in the stars," or something of that kind, for he is now of another world...
...complains because the criticisms on his themes are pithy and to the point-because the instructor gives his real opinion in a few words, of poor and hasty work. Is the writer of this bitter invective so thin-skinned that a few short, sharp criticisms penetrate to his very marrow? If so, it proves the thorough efficiency of the instructor; if not, Mr. "English 12" has no right to complain. The instructors at Harvard take the students to be more than mere school-boys, who require to be humored and lightly dealt with, lest they "go home and tell their...
Doth warm the very marrow of our bones...
...Desist, I pray thee! If thou lov'st me, cease," cried the Lamprey, as he leaped terror-stricken from his chair. "Me frozen marrow creeps backwards in me veins! Oh! awfullest agony of horror, now I know thee!" and, leaving him there crouched in delirious frenzy behind a Tabular View, the Ibex gracefully poised his wings and circled towards Carl...