Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...means keep up as many of the college traditions as possible. It will be a sad day at Yale when the 'fence' is taken away or at Harvard when the fem shall finally fall, or at Princeton when the cannon shall be removed. Hold on to them as long as possible."- University...
This week finds us slowly recovering from the dissipation of the promenade and its attendant festivities, and brings us to the sad realization that, after all, college is intended as a place for study and work, and not for the gay life which we have of late been leading. That the promenade was the most successful and enjoyable that has ever been given here is readily pronounced by all who participated. The thirteen hundred people present were amply accommodated in the large armory, and in spite of the fact that there were fully two hundred and fifty couples dancing...
...read words of truth between the lines. The story is very much out of the common order and outshines some of the best of the writing which has appeared in the Advocate this winter. "Fotheringhay" is an interesting description of the castle in which Mary Stuart met her sad fate...
...most powerful and interesting stories ever written. It is the life of a Gloucester fisherman who, inheriting a taste for rum, rapidly follows the downward course, and ends by killing his wife and himself, leaving a little child to face the world alone. No story could be more sad and pathetic. In it are clearly shown the influence of a good woman and the susceptibility of even hardened men to it. Few can read such a story without being firmly convinced of the necessity of meeting the men of the lower class on their own ground, and making them realize...
...creatures of an inevitable fate - too strong to be rolled in the mire, and only strengthened and chastened by their past. The story is not altogether sombre, however, though one might reasonably ask that a little more cheerfulness had been scattered here and there throughout a tale essentially sad. Alf Escott is the only really cheerful figure, and what one sees of him at first hand is very telling in its lightening effects; but the book is so largely a narrative in the past tense, and the incidents in Escott's life are so persistently unfortunate, that one thinks more...