Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Resolved, That the class of '89 has heard with deep sorrow of the death of their classmate, Harry Rust Merrill. A man of fine scholarship, he was endeared to his friends by his high character and lovable qualities, while none who knew him could fail to admire the patient endurance and splendid courage which he manifested during the months of his illness. His early death has cut short a life of unusual promise...
...believing it to be for the best, and trusting to the generosity and good will of the students and graduates to make up in subscriptions what we have lost financially, and to come forward with contributions to help fill the extra column. It has always been a matter of sorrow to us that the graduates of our university should take such little interest in the college press. But we shall try to make our columns interesting to the graduates as well as to the undergraduates, and we trust that our efforts may meet with their reward in the shape...
...minute later they showed the bowl from the third-story window to the howling crowd below. This ended the fight. The Meds won the victory, and often as the sophomore passes the Medical hall you may see him looking up, with a tearful glance of mingled fear and sorrow, to the windows of the dissecting-room, which contains the pride of his sophomoric existence.- Pennsylvanian...
...with great sorrow that we hear Professor Asa Gray's condition is growing worse...
...custom of concealing commencement did not long continue. We are told that between 1675 and 1700 the students were very "immoral and disorderly," and vigorous measures had to be resorted to by the faculty. The practice of "unsuitable and unseasonable dancing" crept into the college to the great sorrow of the "honorable governors." In spite of all that is said, we cannot think the students of those days so bad as they are reported, for one must consider the sentiments of the time in which these reports were written. The Puritan fathers who held the reins of the college could...