Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Today marks the beginning of the semi-annual examinations, a period in which our college life assumes its most dismal aspect. The annoyances consequent upon the presence of the mid-years are not few; and it is to lighten these in some slight degree that the CRIMSON volunteers the following advice to the more thoughtless of our little community...
...Haven last Saturday were exceedingly unpromising in the morning. The rain of the previous night was continued in the still more exasperating form of a cold drizzle, and many men who had intended to support the nine, changed their minds at the last moment. However, in spite of the dismal outlook, about one hundred and seventy men left Boston on the nine o'clock train and reached New Haven at half-past one. The drizzle had ceased soon after leaving the depot, and there was but little question as to the game's being played at New Haven. When...
...present generation than the statistics shown in a careful perusal of the new Harvard catalogue. The University is now in a time of unparalleled vigor; the elective scheme of education which was first put forward a few years ago, in spite of ominous mutterings of more conservative colleges predicting dismal failure, has pushed far ahead, and the ever increasing size of incoming classes proves more and more the success of the plan. The suction of a large university is identical with that of great cities-the denser the population, the greater the number flocking to them, leaving their smaller rivals...
...well executed pictures and the humor of its articles. There is no college paper which labors under more difficulties than the Lampoon and none in which success should be more assured. The experiment of starting the same kind of a publication at other colleges has proved a dismal failure, and every student should show his appreciation of the energy and push which has been displayed in conducting the Lampoon successfully so many years by giving it his support...
...cheering. There is nothing which spurs on a foot-ball team to do its best more than the sight of a crowd of their own classmates. After the splendid score made against the Grotonian's last Wednesday, there is no chance for the "growlers" to come forward with their dismal croakings predicting the defeat of their own team. The work done by the freshman team so far shows clearly that it is one of the best that has entered college in some time. For a year or two past, freshman teams have been wont to look upon the Exeter game...