Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...know how inadequate this formal action is to express the feelings aroused so widely among us by the death of John J. Cox. But we take this as the only way open to us as a class, to declare our own sorrow, and to extend our sympathy to his immediate friends and family. We who have worked with him wish that they may know our high appreciation of his ability. But more earnestly we wish that they may know our feelings of personal loss and our grief...
RESOLUTIONS.We, the class of '93 at Harvard college having learned with sorrow of the death of one of our classmates...
...become prominent in the life of the college, and has done a distinct service for his Harvard, the blow comes home all the harder. But it is not so much the college distinction which Harold Battelle has gained that makes his death such a matter of personal sorrow to the members of the college, as it is his own lovable nature which made his friends so fond of him. Everyone who knew Battelle, and the number of those who have had this privilege has fortunately been large, could not fail to love his bright face and his simple ways. That...
...manhood, he showed what power the language of music has to express the different phases and emotions of the human character. From the romantic reveries of the imaginative, poetic Manfred overture, through the life portrayed in Schubert's unfinished symphony, a life beautifully calm, yet with its moments of sorrow, finally, to that magnificent expression of manhood in Beethoven's grandest symphony, culminating in the glorious burst of triumph of the last movement, through all the picture of varied experience, there ran a spirit that brought back to mind the beautiful character of the great man in whose memory...
...government; the second, a new glow of love and enthusiasm; and the third, a desire to tell men of his restored happiness of mind. And here there seems to be a lesson for us. The man who has been delivered from a burden of perplexity and sorrow must not forget that there are other men still finding there loads almost too hard to bear. Let him who is joyful carry his gift of good tidings to his fellowmen and show his gratitude by giving up his life to them...