Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is the beginning of a story in the last Acta Columbiana: "The speaker was a handsome young senior whose large brown eyes, sparkling with good humor, showed him at once to be one of that happy-go-lucky class of collegians whose whole soul is wrapped up in the present; one whose past has no regrets, whose future causes no uneasiness...
...absence of tin horns and other attendant instruments of rejoicing, we come to the main-spring which actuates the feeling of enforced quiet. "The freshman chirrups to his fellow freshmen, and carries a cane as the spirit moves him. Though he is small there is no fear in his soul. The days are quiet, and the nights are still more so. Occasionally some sophomore having assured himself that no angry freshman is abroad to injure him, steals forth to sample his neighbor's grapes, but this is a mere ripple on the calm surface of events. For three years college...
...salaries of public offices, to rebuke the notion that money ought to be the main consideration of an American officeholder. Accordingly, in nearly all the States the salaries of judges and other functionaries have been fixed with reference to the wants of an ideal man of really lofty soul, utterly absorbed in the pursuit of things not seen, and by no means with reference to the wants of the ordinary American man of our time, whom we have to get to fill nearly all our salaried positions, with a wife who likes comfort and expects some share in the social...
...hate and joy, and wrath and pain his gloomy soul embitters...
...Cornell graduate speaks in bitter terms of college faculties. "A college faculty," he cries, "to speak the plain, unvarnished truth, is a body content without a soul, without a sense of responsibility, for the simple reason that the individual is lost in the multitude. It is impossible to obtain from an aggregation of twenty or thirty men anything like uniformity of action. The whole is broken up into groups or cliques which do not act in concert, and according as one or the other of such cliques may be present on a given occasion, the voting will be decided...