Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Shaler said briefly: We come to the graves of those who gave their lives to save the state from ruin, not with sorrow but with hope. The dead no longer are ours; they belong to history. We now think only of their value to the state. They did not give their lives to win our sorrow or to gain the fame of posterity; all that they gave they gave for their country. They were indeed men of arms. The Union soldiers did not take up arms for war's sake, but for the sole reason that there...
...passed away at his home in Cambridge. For some years he had been in delicate health. The immediate cause of death was a complication of heart trouble and congestion of the lungs. In spite of his long illness, the news of his death comes as a great shock and sorrow to his friends and classmates...
...committee raised much less than was expected (only about $50,000) and so the original broad plans of erecting a building "dedicated to the comfort and succor of all in the college world who were in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness," had to be given up and only the chief purpose, affording a home and workshop for all forms of spiritual activity and benevolent action in the University could be realized...
...shall examine the essential traits of de Musset's character, then we shall look to the conceptions he had of poetry and of life. We shall see how sorrow made a great poet...
...extent of Newell's influence, and the hold which he had upon men of every rank and every division of college life was forcibly demonstrated by the widely representative character of the assembly which took this opportunity to express their sorrow. The service was an indication of the silent far reaching power for good which lives with undiminished vitality after the death of such...