Word: slenderness
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...guests who are thronging to this grisly reception. One is an old woman, whose skull has been split by some tremendous blow, and yawns in ghastly redness. Another is a young girl, who is dressed in silk and whose dark hair is still coiled neatly, just as those slender, livid fingers last arranged it. She bears no wound, but upon the small, coquettish face is stamped such a look of horror as it might well break a mother's heart to gaze upon. A middle aged man, short, thick-set and resolute looking, has dropped dead in the street...
...students are few. There is a glee club and orchestra, both of recent date, and two secret societies, to 2 G, composed of miners. and a chapter of the Gamma Sigma Upsilon, the civil engineers society. Hops at the gymnasium, a senior ball, and class suppers complete the slender round of amusement for the men of the Institute. The hard work required certainly turns out very capable men, but to obtain their degrees the students have to forego most of the pleasures and social intercourse which make life at most other colleges so pleasant as well as useful...
Webster's advantages of early education were exceedingly slender, for he worked on his father's farm in summer and went to school only in winter. The principal district school that he attended was three miles from his home and his pathway there was often through deep snows. When fourteen years old he spent a few months at Phillips academy, Exeter, under the bunion of Dr. Benjamin Abbot. He mastered the principles and philosophy of the English grammar in less than four months, when he immediately commenced the study of the Latin language, and his first lessons in that study...
...college, and during that brief period he commenced and mastered the study of Greek, so that his tutor was won't to remark that other boys required a year to accomplish the same end. Of all his father's children, Daniel was, as a boy, the sickliest and most slender, and one of his half-brothers, who was somewhat of a wag. frequently took pleasure in remarking, that "Dan was sent to school because he was not fit for anything else." Even from his boyhood he was an industrious reader of standard authors. and previous to his entering college...
...wish to call the attention of the college to the debates held under the auspices of the Union. It is apparently only curiosity that induces the students at various times to fill the hall, while there are long periods of an attendance so slender that it is a reproach to the college. We should not consider the Union as a place of amusement, but as a source of one of the most important courses of training offered by the college curriculum. We cannot rate too high the power of properly expressing an idea in public, and a debating society...