Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...decision of the judges, and nothing more need be said. But several ardent Yalesains are still perturbed about the matter, and one of them sends us an eleven page special plea and an instantaneous photograph, to prove that Sherrill beat Rogers by 2 feet. His brief is a sad waste of white paper and his picture is almost...
...great English universities, has not only been subject to dismissal by the authorities, but has been "dropped," or in the English phrase, "put into Coventry" by his friends. But very few cases have occurred in a very long time, but those few have afforded stern and sad lessons in lives blighted by this unmanly dishonesty at college, and the social condemnation with which it was visited. One of the most successful of Canon Farrar's works - a novel that rivalled "Tom Brown at Oxford" - drew its interest and power from one of those cases, and did much to confirm...
...placed across the floor of the gymnasium during the winter meetings. The various officers of the day sit thereon, but we are able to "sit upon" them only in print. The motive for thus placing these benches on the floor is indeed praiseworthy; but the result is very sad, for these benches and their occupants obstruct the view of nearly half the audience. The wrestling of last Saturday, for example, could not be seen by those seated in the south end of the gymnasium, except from a few of the highest seats...
...curiosity which leads the Yale man to study the statistics of the freshman classes of the last twenty years is equally sad in its results, foreboding fewer students in future rather than more...
...remember that most of the successful story tellers have written clearly and feelingly of the everyday life about them, - a life which they knew thoroughly. The number of men who have succeeded in other lines of narration can be counted upon the fingers. To tell about something very sad and awful may possibly benefit a young author, because it is exercise for his imagination; it may even amuse him. But generally it neither benefits nor amuses anyone else. There is one Poe, and one Hawthorne; and their mantles have not fallen promiscuously on all undergraduates...