Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winners of Saturday's competition are: William T. Dean, Jr. '37, who will give Nicholas Murray Butler's "The Isolated Life"; Robert Dunn '37, giving "A Song of Unending Sorrow," translated from the Chinese by Witter Bynner; Paul Killiam, Jr. '37, who will give an excerpt from Maurice Baring's "Essay on Poetry and Moods of the Public"; Henry V. Poor '36, who will give "The Hound of Heaven," by Francis Thompson; Shepherd Robinson '36, who will give excerpts from James Bryant Conant's 1934 Baccalaureate Sermon; Robert A. Robinson '35, who will give excerpts from Charles Evans Hughes' "Tribute...
...students who come and go in their brief generations knew her but slightly, but the members of the faculty, most of whom she greeted by name, will feel a real and sincere sorrow at finding her missing from her accustomed place. Each day she drove in from Bedford in her own car. Most of those who for a long time have been closely connected with the Society cannot remember a day on which she was not at her post. It is fitting that reverent notice be taken of the passing of a much beloved Harvard figure...
...really necessary for Stillman to cause forty victims' friends such sorrow? Just think, 400 people are probably undergoing our tragic experience this very hour. Mr. Alexander Graham Bell did invent a gadget known as a telephone and some enthusiastic disciple actually found that extensions were feasible, cheap and quite satisfactory. Surely, the installation of one in the ward would not clash too much with the Victorian setting...
...squeezed and jostled in their outer lobby by perhaps 400 unemployed who chorused "Down with the National Government!" until ejected by the 550 police. Meanwhile, in the House, Secretary for Agriculture Major Walter Elliot, pelted from the public gallery with green protest leaflets by the unemployed, exclaimed both in sorrow and in anger: "They do not grasp a single measure we are taking in their behalf...
Cast up the balance of your life. On one side of the ledger put all your past pleasures, all the hard-won triumphs and unexpected windfalls, all the satisfactions, material, mental, emotional. On the other side itemize every trouble, setback and sorrow, all the pain, frustration, deprivation and boredom. Now add up your columns and prepare to make an immediate choice of two alternatives...