Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...march for Cambridge bridge. There their courage failed. With a feeble cheer for '86, panic-struck, they turned and fled, some boarding a passing Harvard square car, the rest, grimly resolved, returning to brave the terrors of a supper at Young's, and there drown the memory of their sad guilt. Hic jacit the custom of freshman theatre going, not by the hand of prerogative, not as token of failure, but overtaken by old age and debility it dies a natural death...
...race had been given up. To sum up, it is claimed that, technically, Harvard could have claimed the race on the day for which it was first appointed; that had Harvard acted in a professional spirit, it would have so claimed it; that upon hearing of Columbia's sad misfortune, Harvard voluntarily and as a matter of courtesy kept off the course on June 24, at the hour named for the race; that when, two days later, Harvard agreed to row Columbia after the race with Yale, it did so with the full understanding that the time...
...expected to set forth the following points: "That technically Harvard could have claimed the race on the day for which it was first appointed; that had Harvard acted in a professional spirit it would have claimed it; that when without formal notice from Columbia of her sad misfortune, Harvard voluntarily, and as a matter of courtesy, kept off the course on the hour and day first named, and two days later agreed to row Columbia after the race with Yale, it did so with the full understanding that the time was to be set to convenience the Harvard crew; that...
...sufferer that he is being abused by somebody or other, and that the utmost vigor and rigor on his part is called for to repel all attacks. A curious mania for "strong writing" seems always to be co-existent in the college papers of the institutions where this sad disorder flourishes. We cannot affect to explain this fact either. For example there are the two papers we have mentioned-both seemingly smitten with this mysterious affliction...
...sad thing is that we believe