Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college life, which consists to a great extent in living in the midst of companions of one's own age and tastes, is denied in a great measure to these same men. Of course, as long as Harvard is too poor to build another dormitory, some one must suffer, but we think it only just to give upper classmen the preference over sub-freshmen, by limiting the number of rooms for which sub-freshmen may apply...
...sang an inharmonious accompaniment to the minister's words, and then attempted to drown out the voice of the heavy basses and the airy, melodious tones of the boy singers at chapel. In all earnestness, we must take more care of ourselves at this time of year, and not suffer an ignominious cold to seize upon us and make us miserable for the coming weeks, and disturb the chapel exercises...
...scholars "who should work up to graduation are much below the normal standard of health." In Denmark, where a still higher standard of education is insisted on, a government investigation brings to light that 29 per cent. of the boys, and 41 per cent. Of the girls, suffer from over-pressure...
...Yale peanuts and sandwiches but afterwards only one kind remains in stock, and that kind is sure to be well patronized by the supporters of the victorious crew. Of a truth the New London trader is a happy man, for, while the Cambridge or New Haven merchant must suffer in turn the distress of unpaid bills, he has shekels unnumbered thrust into his very face...
...probably known to most of our readers that Yale athletics suffer greatly from the want of a gymnasium adequate to the needs of the large number of athletic organizations which Yale possesses. A few evenings ago a large mass meeting of the Yale students, under the presidency of Prof. Richards, met to discuss the project of a new gymnasium. According to reports five or six hundred members of the college attended the meeting, and great interest was taken. The opinion of Prof. Richards - and his opinion seems to have been shared by the students - was that it was too great...