Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more day of trial and then the whole college will breath a sigh of relief at the thought that the examinations have vanished from the face of the earth. For a space of four months gradually the thought of blue-books and of misery will fade from men's minds and leave them fresh to encounter the Finals...
...books will wonder and rejoice when they need no longer pass the long nights in darkness, such as Egypt and Cambridge alone have ever brought forth!. They will almost burst their musty bindings in sending forth a mighty sigh of relief and of gladness. And the students. - we hardly dare contemplate the vast impetus to work which those glowing carbon flaments will give them. Every chair will be filled, every inch of the table eagerly occupied. The man who goes through college without ever having seen the inside of the library will commit a double crime, for he will have...
There flourished last year a society, known to some as a monohippic institution, and to others as the Harvard Shakspere Club, which, after winning for itself a brief but more than cosmopolitan renown, quietly expired. Many of its former friends breathed a sigh of relief at its dissolution, and now say, peace to its ashes. Others, however, contend that the absence of the "hippos" ought not to mean the annihilation of the Club, but that the society now has an opportunity to bestow dramatic laurels upon undergraduates as well as upon more advanced students of "the art of dramatic expression...
...announcement made by the faculty yesterday, that college exercises during the anniversary celebration would be suspended from Thursday evening until Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock, has been greeted with general satisfaction by the students. The constant and hard worker will sigh a mighty sigh of relief when his eyes light on these lines, and the constitutional fainant will smile with lurid joy at finding the period of his loafing so largely extended. He will even tell you that the vacation ought to last until Wednesday morning at nine o'clock. However, it is to be hoped that the proverbial...
...carefully compiled statistics of the English University crews, not only are the men not injured, but actually improved in health, if we may judge from the fact that their years are increased. But length of days is not everything. Ruined health from a diseased heart may make a man sigh for death. Here, again, the figures are most favorable, for a smaller percentage of these men died from heart disease than is found among average...