Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deceased was a son of Henry W. Brown of Worcester. He traveled for several years in Europe and was an attendant at the German schools, but prepared for college at Exeter Academy. He was a bright and promising young man, universally liked, and his early death will cause sorrow to a large circle of friends and class-mates...
...Social Science Congress, says a writer in a recent English periodical, the other day, a learned man speaking of education versus health, described in the most earnest language the sorrow and dismay he experienced after visiting the colleges of Newnham and Girton...
...this fall we presume has failed to notice the change made by the wise and weighty legislators of this town in the name of this famous way from Brighton street to Boylston street. What were the motives for the change does not concern us. We can merely remark with sorrow that the change has been made. In the future when old graduates return to these classic haunts on class day or commencement, and in remembrance of past days of jollity cause the air to resound with the words...
...readers for their daily edification and enjoyment. In conclusion we would say that the columns of THE HERALD-CRIMSON are open to all members of the university, and we shall hope continually that they may avail themselves of the opportunity to share their knowledge and ignorance, joy and sorrow with their fellow students...
...interpretation. It is thus with mingled feeling that the news of his death has come upon us. We rejoice that he who has departed first from among us has left us the example of an upright life and of an unflinching death. At the same time we feel deep sorrow at our loss and sincere sympathy with his family in their affliction, and it is to give some faint expression of this feeling of sorrow and of sympathy that we have met together...