Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is but one sentiment among Harvard men today. The sad accident of last week came like a shock to the whole University, and the days that followed were filled with anxious forebodings. Now that the last hope has gone, there is universal mourning both by the faculty and the students. Nothing is more tragic than that a life should be cut off just as it was growing into its full vigor, when the powers that had been gathering for a score of years were making ready for actual work in the life of the world, when all had promise...
Clarence Bayne, recently elected captain of the University of Pennsylvania nine, died on Tuesday afternoon. He became ill on the recent New York and New England trip of the team, and was taken to the hospital immediately on his return, suffering from appendicitis. He was unable to stand the shock of the operation which proved necessary and died while delirious. He was the best pitcher the University had for years and was much loved by his fellow players...
...other the overturning of his carriage by an electric car, in addition to a severe attack of malaria gave his friends great uneasiness. He left college two or three weeks before the holidays but never realized he was dangerously ill. His sudden and unexpected death will be a terrible shock to his many friends...
...symbol of inconstant family life. It has increased within the last thirty years almost three times as fast as the population, and it has come to be granted for trivial and even nonsensical reasons. The looseness that pervades the whole system has brought with it a moral shock and a consequent great social evil...
...heat, R. H. Davis very craftily set a fast pace, tired the Yale man out, and in the final stretch, his brother, P. W. Davis, made a beautiful spurt and captured first place, Wade of Yale and R. H. Davis of Harvard being close second and third. After the shock of the fall in the first heat, Elliott was hardly in condition to do well in the finals, although he pluckily stuck to it and finished a good fourth...