Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...MORNING PRAYER. Rev. Prof. P.M. Rhinelander. Subject: Sorrow, the Means of Joy. Appleton Chapel...
...undergraduates of Harvard University wish to express their keen sorrow at the death of Cadet Byrne, and to extend to you and all the members of West Point their deepest sympathy. "Respectfully yours, "G. P. GARDNER, JR. "E. C. BACON. "H. FISH, JR. "S. A. SARGENT...
...some years it has seemed to many that the formal resolutions of a class were a cold and inadequate way of expressing sympathy and sorrow for the death of a Harvard undergraduate. There are others than classmates who feel such a loss, and yet shrink from the usual expression of sympathy for some reason or another. It seems to us that Harvard is not too large or too impersonal to take some notice in morning Chapel of the death of a member of the university, and if some simple and appropriate service could be arranged and his friends and classmates...
...postscript which in spite of its kindly spirit might well be omitted. Mr. Schenck's "Missing Mistletoe" is slow in getting under way, and sudden ever afterwards. Much of the dialogue lacks ease, but, the sudden part is diverting. Mr. Warren's "Lost Christmas" is a story of sorrow, told creditably yet lacking power. Mr. Whitman's "Chamburlesque" I cannot estimate fairly without reading the work it parodles--and this, if the parody is just, I should be sorry to do. If I were judging the story by itself, I should be tempted to call it capable but vulgar...
...some years it has seemed to many that the formal resolutions of a class were a cold and inadequate way of expressing sympathy and sorrow for the death of a Harvard undergraduate. There are others than classmates who feel such a loss, and yet shrink from the usual expression of sympathy for one reason or another. It seems to us that Harvard is not too large or too impersonal to take some notice in morning Chapel of the death of a member of the University, and if some simple and appropriate service could be arranged and his friends and classmates...