Word: wail
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would be worse than useless, and that the day would be literally wasted. This is not so, however, for in our belief, every one would do better work in the weeks which follow. O, that the kindly eyes of the benign overseers may rest in favor on this final wail of the long, long series...
...Nassau Lit utters a wail for a professor of poety at Princeton...
...wail from the Willistonian: "Again the Yale Fresh have gone back on us. It makes twice now that they have backed out of their agreements and failed to play us. Doubtless they had good excuses both times, but they have failed to make them known to us. It is to be hoped that the third time they will stand by what they agree...
...annual wail over the freshman nine has again come to us from Yale. The News says: "As the time approaches for the freshman ball game, it would seem that '89 ought to be putting forth her best efforts to beat Harvard, and win the fence. But we are sorry to find that this is far from the case. It hardly seems possible that the freshmen do not realize the necessity of good, earnest work, thorough training and enthusiasm. The Harvard nine will, without doubt, be one of the strongest their freshmen have ever put in the field. Their battery will...
...applaud him to the echo and he walks before us with an added sense of his power and genius. And we steal his lines and post them as an offering to our love, no longer his. With pedantic pen and labored toil B. sings of the "Wail of the Whip-poor-Will," and if his lines help out the editor of the Bugle, and are printed, a fond mother weeps in joy over the promise of her son, and the Century registers a new contributor. C. is taking Phil. I. He breaks forth into an exegesis of Hedonism. The readers...