Word: wail
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...good many things. I used to think it needed praying for, but the disappearance of the ulsters has reassured me on that score. The pressing need at this time is a course in the philosophy of Herbert Spencer. For this there arises periodically, at about this time, a dolorous wail, as of a child for the bottle, in the College papers, which I propose to forestall this time with some considerations of a lighter sort...
APROPOS of the President's wail over the lack of students at our Divinity School, we copy the following from the Academy, December 18: "Theology is evidently not a favorite study with the rising generation of Germans. At Heidelberg only nine of the 488 students have entered their names as attendants at the classes of the Theological Faculty. About twenty-five per cent of the students are foreigners: America contributing 39 names, England and Scotland 21, Russia and Switzerland respectively...
...Nilus' vale no suppliant's wail...
Moan not and wail...
...Geyser opens with a homely appeal from "Uncle Ike" to close the "hell-holes," or, in Cambridge vernacular, beer saloons, and follows it up with a heart-rending wail over tobacco; having, apparently, just discovered that its use is "alarmingly prevalent." It tells the following sad story: "We were visited lately by a young man from town, seven years old, the son of respectable parents, who is an inveterate tobacco-chewer, and has been such for over a year." Verily, if that is the state of affairs there, we cheerfully overlook the grammar, and add a few quarts...