Word: pitifull
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AS we go to press we are rejoiced to learn that a club-table at Mrs. Morgan's, having learned the intention of the "sporting column" to give a cup for some contest, have decided to offer a subscription cup of the value of twenty-five dollars for a half...
IT seems to me that it is about time that something should be said in defence of that much-maligned creature the proctor. The violent censure and scathing sarcasm that have been hurled upon his defenceless head for weeks past have entirely destroyed his nervous system. He has grown prematurely...
At the pitiful sight he was given to see.
I NEVER see a proctor go by without feeling like praying for him. To think of the depth to which some of my fellow-creatures have sunk! To think that whole, able-bodied men, some of them peradventure endowed with reason, can thus grovel in the dust, and deceive themselves...
"The successful contestant in a one-mile walk there - Green of Harvard - is thus described, in the moment of his hard-earned victory (N. Y. Times, July 16): 'He hurried down the lane to the string, which he reached, pale and exhausted, unable to stand still, and finally staggered into...