Word: terrors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...important now as it ever was. Every critic must agree with Aristotle, and every art says undertake only one thing at a time. Unity of action, simplicity of design, and subordination of detail are requisites in every tragedy of lasting excellence, whose purpose it is to purify through terror and pity the minds...
...time they were repelled. At last they had recourse to a stratagem. By a sudden flank movement they baffled the college men, and getting hold of the bowl they charged against the doors of the dead-room. A horrible sight greeted the college men, and they drew back with terror. But the repulsive grins of the "stiffs" were to the Meds only smiles of welcome from old friends. They closed the doors after them, and a minute later they showed the bowl from the third-story window to the howling crowd below. This ended the fight. The Meds...
...CRIMSON has taken it upon itself once or twice before to give fatherly and homely advice to its readers. It will now assume the role once more, in these times of terror and woe which have come upon us, and seek to instill some good precepts in the minds of those not morituros, but about to try examinations. In the words of a recent ethical pamphlet, "don't" stay up all night cramming just before an examination. Go to bed earlier than usual whether you know anything or not. It is better to know less and be able to express...
...entertainments. The effort to do away with this annual celebration is by no means the outgrowth of any recent spirit of reform. Protests have been made before, and often, too, against the further continuance of the custom. Yet the fact remains that "Bloody Monday," though not the night of terror that it once was, is still a Cambridge institution. Whether or not it will die out entirely, or will still hold its place in the esteem of upper-classmen, remains to be seen...
...that ought to be learned early in life, before, if possible, a man reaches college. To those who find it difficult to learn at so late a period, system is the only complete guide and aid. Study must be systematized, and thus half of its terror vanishes, and what was formerly a labor becomes a pleasure insomuch as the mind has not time to weary itself by needlessly plodding over lessons again and again...