Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...natural history museum, and the trunk-rooms. Hundreds and hundreds of trunks, side beside, occupy two large attic rooms. Trunks of all sizes and all varieties were there; and here came the only sad thought of the day. We almost wept in pity when we thought of the sorrow in the college when the day for final packing up came. Our sadness soon passed away, however, for at the next moment we were again in the corridor, and for the next two hours were talking Wellesley, Harvard, Athletics, Prayers and Greek. How much we talked! Junior after junior was introduced...
...game) thereby adding greatly to the effectiveness of the exhibition. But the Three Important Persons very foolishly mistook their sportive play for angry earnestness, and were greatly troubled in mind. But when they saw the red paint (thinking it could only be human blood) they turned away in sorrow and left the field. The first, however, overcome by the horrible sight, remained a few days in the city, but the other two, whose names were Cosine and Hercules, hastened home to forbid their own little children from playing this naughty game...
...college has learned with sorrow of the death of George Emerson Lowell, a well known member of the class of '83. On account of the many prominent positions which Mr. Lowell occupied while in college and his high personal qualities, his early death carries grief and sorrow to all his friends and classmates...
...present at college until the end of the term, when he left Cambridge to join his family. He was the eldest son of Mr. Joseph H. Choate, president of the Harvard alumni. Ruluff Choate was widely known in his class and the news of his death will cause sorrow to a large circle of friends...
Although Chunder Sen did not believe wholly in Christianity as we do, yet his main ideas were similar to those of the Christian religion. Under his ministration, the natives of India have become much more civilized, and although his death caused profound sorrow everywhere, yet he has a large number of disciples who are still disseminating his doctrines among the people; and it is hoped that in the course of time India will give up paganism and turn to Christianity...