Word: woes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...average Memorial Hall waiter can probably never be excelled. When this interesting specimen of sable humanity is not engaged in talking politics or adroitly pilfering from the table of his neighbor, the chances are that he will be filling the ears of his helpless victims with tales of imaginary woe or visions of enjoyment which the donation of a "quarter" or "half" will give. The ingenious devices resorted to are worthy of admiration. At one time an extra dollar is needed to pay the month's rent; again, a pitiful story of a dying child is used to work upon...
...flower and immaculate lily, and before them kneel in aesthetic adoration and reverence? We cannot tell. Will the sons of Fair Harvard, imitators of the island-born Briton, also conform to the manners of him who yearns and is intense? Will they wander aimlessly through the yard with woe-begone expressions, clad in a gauze of glowing supremity and a hot-house poppy? The future alone can decide. But whatever may come, may we never see the day when the Memorial menu presents to the famished student "sunflower saute aux champignons," "poppy frite aux petits pois," "lily a la maitre...
...quite hoarse with crying "Woe...
...followed aye by woe...
Come weal or woe, by sea or shore...