Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This is a very fair specimen of gloom of another kind than that used by the "sea" poets. It has the weirdness and ghastliness of a silly ghost story told in full daylight, and produces about as much real effect on the hearer...
...which he applied himself was his characteristic, and well-merited success, earned by patient and persevering labor. As a student, or as an athlete, this earnestness of purpose showed itself, and the result was always satisfactory. For this reason, we cannot but feel that his loss is a real loss, not only to the present, but to the future. No man in college had a future more promising of good work, and the career cut short so early, would surely have been one the world could ill afford to lose...
...from adding his influence to that of the society. If a man really feels that the result aimed at by the society is a desirable one, he should help the society in bringing about the result. There is, of course, a reasonable ground of doubt about the real truth of the question in hand. but for those to whom the question seems a settled one, their course is very clear...
...offensive. He made a plan and on the next day moved forward. His attack was a wheeling movement to turn Hood's left while he kept his right and centre busy in front. Gallant charges captured some of the enemy's works, and before Hood saw what was the real danger, it was too late. Simultaneous charges break his line and capture many men, and by evening his army was in full and disorderly retreat. Thomas followed up the advantage till dark and then pressed his army forward for a renewed attack on the 16th. Hood had gathered his forces...
...hundreds of undergraduates in on fields no larger than are owned by many colleges less than half her size? More grounds must be bought if Harvard is to maintain her general interest in athletics. Moreover, this land should be determined on and bought at once, as the price of real estate in Cambridge is rising and will rise even more rapidly if an elevated road is built to Boston. Either the faculty should advise the corporation to appropriate the necessary funds or else graduates and undergraduates interested in the future welfare of recreation and athletics should take the matter...