Word: mournful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Resolved, That we deeply mourn the loss of one who, while with us, set an example of manliness, purity, and simplicity which we all respected; whose standard of true gentlemanly conduct was the highest, and who unflinchingly lived...
...knowledge that other college Nines have made numerous engagements with professional clubs causes us once more to mourn in spirit that this means of improvement is cut off from our representatives...
...Macaulay and Prescott lie too deep for their shallow taste. The sole care of these literary butterflies is to draw pleasure from the writings of other; that they never add the smallest morsel to the food of the reading world grieves them not in the least; nor do they mourn that they have planted no flowers to brighten the garden of literature with blossoms. They appear to have fed on lotus-flowers, so dulled are their senses to the duties and pleasures of labor in the field of letters...
Those who knew him personally will mourn sincerely for him as a man, and all who have watched the progress of his short career will realize what a loss American literature has suffered...
Resolved, That in the death of our classmate we mourn the loss of a faithful friend and a true Christian, who, by a life short but faithful in good works, has made his memory dear to the many, in administering to whose needs that life was spent...