Word: sorrowful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months of January and February make up the formative period of college athletics. They are dreary months and quiet ones, for the work done seems to bring no immediate reward, but withall they are perhaps the most important of any in the year. As the university knows to some sorrow...
...heads a stately train. "The tea-cup time of patch and hood" is upon us now. The Count and Countess of Lenox, Countess of Harrington, Count of Arundel, with a great retinue of lords and ladies, accompanying the young wife to her new home by the Neckar. Gloom and sorrow follow close after. A jet black steed in inky trappings is led by, mournful and riderless. Black plumes nod on his head, and a broken shield hangs from the empty saddle. He symbolizes the War of the Orleans Succession and the disasters which plunged the "gay court" in deepest mourning...
...upon a comparison of the work done by students of the classics, and those who are so unfortunate as not to have studied Greek. Mr. H. E. Fraser, '86, presents some pleasing lines entitled, "Memory, a Dream." We are told that the soul of things is touched by human sorrow. Mr. N. S. Kenison, '86, tells in "A Vermont Experience" a laughable experience in a country store. A charming bit of verse from the French of Fontaney is the work of Mr. E. T. Parsons, Rochester, '86. The reports of several banquets held by the fraternity evidence the flourishing condition...
Attention is called to the fact that ball playing in the yard is against the regulations. Several men have learnt this to their sorrow of late...
...manuscripts, the Labour of the Learned, and the work of ages, in a few hours turned to ashes. Our College is now poorer than any on the Continent - we are all real mourners on this occasion and I doubt not your attachment to alma mater will make you feel sorrowful upon this conflagration. . . . . . "The President's house was in great danger the wind was strong at the west the latter part of the time, and in short if Stoughton had gone all the houses in town to the Eastward of the College would have gone. I think I never...