Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the sophomore class of Harvard College, having learned with deep sorrow of the death of our classmate, John William Thomas Leonard, wish to express our sincere grief at the loss of our friend, and to extend our earnest sympathy to his family in their affliction...
...members of the class of '89, of Harvard University, wish to express the profound sorrow which we feel at the death of William Abram Levi. We realize that in him we have lost one whom we had learned to admire for his sterling qualities and amiable disposition. A conscientious student and one of our highest scholars, he gave promise of a brilliant and useful manhood...
...else, would be branded as false and utterly baseless. If the Harvard press must abrogate to itself the powers and regalia of censor we trust it will gird up its robes of office instead of allowing them to trail in the mire. We cannot refrain from expressing our deep sorrow that the "old ally" should so far have forgotten its role of "ally" as to give its more powerful "ally" occasion to lament the apparent desertion of the "old ally." We have discovered, however, in our limited experience, that community, and antagonism of interests are diametrically opposed, and that while...
With peculiar sorrow does his death come at such a time when we look back at the many happy hours we have spent together as well as those dull ones which his presence has brightened and cheered. This sad loss, so near the end of our college course fills our hearts with a gloom of sadness which our coming festivities here will be powerless to dispel...
...members of the first-year class of the Harvard Law School, having learned with regret of the death of our late fellow-student, Elliot Perkins Hood, unanimously express our earnest sorrow at the loss of one whom we had earned not only to admire for his intellectual ability, but to like and respect for his manly character and courteous bearing. We also extend our sincere and regretful sympathy to his relatives and friends in their sad bereavement...