Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...culture of Boston; and in view of the recent large vote for license in the metropolis, the flow still promises to be as much into Cambridge as out of it. Formerly, Mr. Kline tells us, the student would sit down "in moments of depression and be relieved of his sorrow in a poem or a story for the Illustrated." Does he not still give scope to his feelings in the college literary magazines? Let us only hope that nowadays the undergraduate public does not read his effusions, excellent as they may be. The college literary magazine is made...
...this should be long, enough and intensive enough to give the elementary habits of the soldier a firm footing. But for those who are already in college, the practical consideration is to find or make some place in your plans for this important part of education. And with all sorrow for the tragedy which has raised the issue in this land, we can still thank God that we live in a time when citizenship is taking on a more serious and concrets meaning than it has yet borne
...play," but it must be admitted that as a dramatic spectacle it is an impressive production. What little plot there is, is soon lost sight of and there only remains a vivid impression of situations frought with tenseness, and the sight of the women of fallen Troy, waiting in sorrow to hear their lot. At a time when a victory is won we look for the hymns of praise and the joy of the conquerors, but Euripides sees only the misery of the vanquished. For him the living drama lay in the tears of the conquered women...
...close of the War, in Washington, the victory was celebrated by one of the most stirring military pageants the country had ever witnessed. It was a token of respect and sorrow to those who had died in the service of their country and of honor to those who survived the great struggle, and who must now stand as sentries on guard over the fame and reputation of their dead comrades...
February 21.--The Religious Mission of Sorrow...