Word: paines
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...condition of Captain Holden yesterday was much the same as Saturday. He suffers but little pain and the physicians say that his symptons are favorable for a safe recovery. The in jury to his breast bone will prevent his playing foot-ball again this season...
...says nothing in an attractive manner; if it disregards another, we may find the reason in some defect which for the time or forever condemns him to oblivion. If Mr. Jones had but little joy in his life we can but grieve for him. It will not lighten his pain, now that he is dead, if his volume be thumbed ever so eagerly. But Mr. Perry makes no attempt to screen his new god's defects, and in the end he leaves us to judge if after all it be not a real...
...this pathetic incident connected with the Persian poet's life. The choice of words is in many instances made with exceptional insight, as when he speaks of "jewels which had drunk of fire," or of the "dusty caravan," or again, "an old man, on whose brow the knots of pain were loosened now." No small charm is lent the rhythmic flow of the lines by the melodious oriental names used here and there. The poem is a very welcome departure from the abstruse and would-be metaphysical lines that fill the columns of college magazines. Mr. Bruce's success...
...merely a display of dexterity and grace, attributes which our fair friends are especially quick to admire, and with justice as well. If any lady, however, is so weak as to be frightened or affected in any way by a contest which involves much less danger and physical pain than very many of those less conspicuous matches which she looks upon unmoved, then she is quite at liberty to stay away. We believe that the feather-weight sparring gives a zest to the second meeting which our lady friends enjoy as much...
...with pain and regret that the CRIMSON refers to another of the time-dishonored practices which have been handed down from generation to generation of Harvard students. But just at this time some such reference seems absolutely necessary perhaps for the benefit of freshmen if of no one else. There is a certain class of men in college who seem to think that simply because they may have passed an examination, they are justified in making life hideous for a day or two to the poor unfortunates who are their neighbors, and who are still grinding for their own examinations...