Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard's most ancient and central aspect, oldtime Harvard College, to which the university's graduate schools are comparatively recent and traditionally minor adjuncts. Beneath the Lampoon's youthful vulgarity and ink-intoxicated rudeness there seemed to be a note of genuine bitterness which, since Harvard men are often sad, may have adumbrated some portion of adult Harvard sentiment on the "inner college" plan The Lampoon also said the following...
...Alas! His enemies succeeded. But now the fraud is apparent to the whole world. Easter is coming. But only in deepest sadness can we think of our German people, who are externally enslaved and indebted and internally at the same time enslaved and lifeless and?this is the sad dest part?want to be slaves...
...delicate Ingunn. She chafed under his kindness, marveled that he could forgive her former infidelity, suspected him of retaliating in kind. This finally the good SIGRID UNDSET She did Nobel work at night. man did. Immediately he rued it, lavished yearly more tenderness upon his ailing wife, while she?sad martyr?bore him son after still-born son. Thus The Snake Pit, part two of the tetralogy, ends with the master's murder still unconfessed, unatoned; and promises tremendous cumu lative tragedy in the two unwritten volumes. Less vigorous than the earlier volumes The Snake Pit necessarily strikes a minor...
...around every subject under Heaven. The good obey meekly each request to deliver their minds and never grumble about the postage. There should be a questionnaire on "Who invented the questionnaire?" If detected, his birthday should be a national holiday. He has given us a precious "institution." It is sad to see an inferior member of the hierarchy of knowledge, a mere college, disobedient to high command. Dean Doyle of the George Washington University has sent to some four hundred universities and colleges a questionnaire of great pith and moment on "Collegiatism"--a marvelous word that surprises by itself. What...
...should learn from this sad story if we hesitate we are lost...