Word: sobering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Argo, ever sent any communication whatsoever to the managing or other editor of the Amherst Student. The letter printed by the latter, as coming from Williams, was simply a huge joke in the Student's usual ponderous style, and was evidently taken by the over-zealous News as sober earnest...
...should be published monthly and should aim at representing what is best and most characteristic in college life. It should resemble in some degree both the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Weekly. It should have a few carefully drawn illustrations so as not to make it of too sober or of too literary a cast; but, above all, its object should not be to contain "funny sketches." There are several points in the detail of the plan which I will briefly consider...
...drinking water provided at the hall. But all this would be superfluous, for we are quite assured that the writer's insinuations are base slanders. But the suggestion as to the need of reform in providing better service and food for students in case of sickness is worthy of sober consideration, and many, to their sorrow, can bear witness to the truth of the statement that the students' position there "is simply wretched." A student at Harvard who cannot afford nurses and extra dishes when sick is surely in a most unenviable plight, and really the careless regulations provided...
...Chinese, like domestic fowls, retiring early to rest. There is no day corresponding to Sunday, and only a few holidays in the year. Busily as they toil, these people are never in a hurry, are never nervous, and are not given to worrying; but are steady, cheerful, and sober. They rarely quarrel, and even if they do, seldom come to blows. There will be a little queue pulling, some calling of hard names, and then the bystanders will quietly separate the combatants. It is not physical timidity, but a sensitive consciousness of the disgrace of fighting, that keeps them from...
What she said I do not remember. Perhaps this whole dialogue does not seem worth remembering. I only know that when I came to talk of the separation about to come, I thought that she grew very sober; I thought I almost saw tears in her eyes. Never mind what I saw. I drew her trembling form closer to mine; and then I knew that we two must not part for ever...