Word: mournful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...them. As to the batting - or rather the absence of batting - we must hold Carter largely responsible for the result. Not a base hit was made, - a record which Harvard has never before made, and let us hope that this will be the last she will have to mourn and Yale to rejoice over. Of course Yale was uproariously happy. Cheering, yelling, hoisting their men heavenward, fireworks, and singing inadequately expressed her wild joy. But this we can excuse, even though done with noisy obtrusiveness under the eyes of the vanquished, since her signal success was as much unexpected...
Resolved, That we deeply mourn the loss of one whose strength and purity of character commanded our profoundest respect...
Resolved, That, recognizing in his death the hand of a Divine Providence, we yet deeply regret and mourn the early close of so promising a life...
Resolved, That in the death of our classmate we mourn the loss of a faithful friend and true Christian...
...short year since their graduation lent additional solemnity, if possible, to the meeting held by the class of 1874 at the Parker House on the 16th, upon the announcement of the sudden death of one of their members. In the death of James Jackson Cabot his classmates have to mourn, not only for one whose amiable qualities endeared him to all who knew him, but also for the loss of a name which ability and industry seemed to have marked out for a high place on their roll of honor. Having early chosen medicine as the work of his life...