Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...follows then that the book runs the gamut of the sad story of the explosion of the last remnant of the Holy Roman Empire. One marvels, in view of all the enormous difficulties with which Count Burián had to contend, how the Austrian Government (the Hungarian Government voted against war) ever dared to expose the tottering Empire to what was a known peril...
Today the members of the Class of 1925 assemble to make merry for the last time as undergraduates amidst the scenes which have become so much a part of themselves during the four years past. "In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind", surrounded by family and friends, the Senior welcomes Class Day as the forerunner of Commencement...
This incident, I think, illustrates a sad truth, that until these Freshman hoodlums have a little of their rustic training beaten out of them, Harvard indifference cannot be attained. Would it not be possible for such bumpkins as the Freshman Pajama Night promoters to go to some college where they can obtain more backing for their boobishness than they can here. Mark Howe...
...sad part of it all is that the Times is very near the truth. Even Harvard, which prides itself as being an intellectual institution does very little thinking. All the coarse frivolities of the small college are omitted to be sure, but in their place there is a vast grey void. Harvard has no fence, no skull caps, and no Freshman riots and for that it may be justly thankful, but in abolishing these petty nuisances, it has introduced no corresponding good. Harvard would have a better right to criticize the childishness of other colleges if it had more...
...constitutional democracy is often held up as the highest form of government. In a democracy, however, the vote of the majority, that is, the uneducated masses, determines as a rule the legal statutes of the country. The present grave situation is a sad commentary on the success of a democratic government which prides itself on its inviolate constitution, its personal liberty, and last but not least on its intellectual enlightenment...