Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...death of Professor Dana during vacation has occasioned profound sorrow throughout the University. He was the last representative of the "old guard" of great scholars and still greater teachers, who rendered the first contributions to Yale's fame as an institution of learning. He was universally loved as well as respected, and though he was very old, yet every one was shocked to hear of his sudden death. He continued his writings up to the very last...
...have been appointed by the senior class to attempt to express to you their sincere sympathy in your great sorrow. We feel that the loss of your son has left in our class a gap which cannot be filled. The class as a whole will miss one whom they are proud to have called a classmate, and those who knew him intimately have lost a manly, sincere and lovable friend. We as a class share in your grief, for this sorrow has touched us all, and we join as friends and classmates to assure you of our deepest sympathy...
...bearing of the burdens of others, however, is not all that we must do. There are many burdens which cannot be shared; which each must bear for himself. We must have the outer sympathy and bear the inner sorrow; lighten the burdens of others and bear our own. The two are closely related - each is the key of the other...
...life. In Isaiah, chapters 24-27, there are many problems and obscure allusions, but the conception reached is a still higher one. Israel is regarded no longer as a guilty nation, but as a righteous one under oppression. The prophet describes the removal of the veil of death and sorrow and the glorious entry of every race into a new creation. In a subsequent chapter the abolition of death is suggested and in another prayer is made for the resurrection of the dead. A similarity of ethical conceptions suggests the possibility of Persian influence at this period of Hebrew thought...
...wish to call the attention of members of the University to the announcement of the memorial services to be held in Appleton Chapel today and tomorrow. We are sure that the students will take advantage of this opportunity of expressing their sorrow for the great loss which the University has suffered...