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Word: wretchedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thus it comes to pass that the Morgue is no longer a mere inanimate building. It becomes weirdly endowed with an awful personality. It is an explorer, it is an expounder, it is a preacher, it is a prophet, it is a stern moralist, it is a ghastly buffoon, it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

Apart, then, from these considerations, fatalism does not change our notion of what things are right and what wrong. But what it does change completely is our notion of the nature of right and wrong, of the nature of sin. We sometimes feel that we have thoughts and desires which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

We wish to call the attention of the authorities to the state of the bowling alleys in the gymnasium. On the upper floor, so many improvements have been made, and the air of neatness and newness is so noticeable, that we feel sure that they will carefully consider the complaint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/14/1885 | See Source »

"He receives the names and fees of candidates for the public examinations, and plays a conspicuous and highly amusing part in the ceremony of conferring degrees. After each batch of new-made graduates have had a Latin incantation mumbled over them by the Vive-Chancellor, two Proctors-in the presence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bit of Oxford Slang. | 1/24/1885 | See Source »

The freshmen yesterday played their fifth game with a picked team from the schools of Hopkinson and Noble. The ball was started at 4.00 P. M., Boston having the lower end of Jarvis. Porter soon secured the ball and made a good rush down the field, Reynolds was the next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Freshmen, 35. Boston Private Schools, 0. | 11/15/1884 | See Source »

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