Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After graduation he entered the office of the Springfield Republican. Here he was stricken with consumption. A year spent at El Paso, Texas, proved of no avail and he returned home...
...names of 108 students have been stricken from the rolls at the University of Berlin for "lack of diligence." Of this number of dropped men, forty-eight are foreigners...
...take leave of him for the time. The unfortunate Isaac, lies upon the snow, till his dog, - not mentioned in the ballads, but which must have been there, as Mr. Cranch observes, - runs to Mr. Brown's, and leads him to the scene of the accident. They bear the stricken man to his home and nurse him tenderly; - fruitless effort; he dies, and they lay him in the cold ground...
...leisure hours to study and entered college with his old class-mates last year as a special student. His excellent work during the past year would undoubtedly have admitted him as a member of good standing of the sophomore class, but about the middle of last June he was stricken down with pulmonary disease, from which he died six weeks later...
...having a number of members who are on the university club. Under these circumstances, they should be by this time in good trim for singing. The college expects to hear from them soon after the recess, and the college must not be disappointed. There are plenty of poverty stricken organizations which would gladly accept any surplus earnings that the Freshman Glee Club may be able in the future to donate...