Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been in college, Linder has made many friends, to whom his death comes as a sudden and painful blow. His cheerful disposition and manly bearing attracted to him many who did not know him intimately and to these as well as to his closer friends, his death is a sad loss. In temperament he was so quiet and unassuming that it is not until he has been taken away that his friends realize what he was to them...
There is but one sentiment among Harvard men today. The sad accident of last week came like a shock to the whole University, and the days that followed were filled with anxious forebodings. Now that the last hope has gone, there is universal mourning both by the faculty and the students. Nothing is more tragic than that a life should be cut off just as it was growing into its full vigor, when the powers that had been gathering for a score of years were making ready for actual work in the life of the world, when all had promise...
King George the Third always maintained that Shakespeare's writing was but sad stuff, and that it was only tolerated because it was Shakespeare. With this view no one can agree who reads his plays without prejudice. In them we find no trace of preaching or moralizing, but every character is allowed to speak for itself, without preference given or comment made. It is the work of a great artist, to whom life in all its manifold phases strongly appealed, and who was thus able to reproduce it with all the delightful charm of reality...
...number of men it graduates or even by the number and quality of the professors, but always by the kind of men that are graduated. If, then, a day should some time come when the body of students change from serious to trifling, it will be a very sad thing...
...charging an admission fee, but all such criticism seems to us absurd. It has been claimed that people will not go to the debate if they have to pay an admission fee. To this we can only say that if it is true, things have come to a sad pass. Ten dollars is not too much to pay for a football contest, and it is ridiculous to suppose that people will be unwilling to pay twenty-five cents for the more serious contest in argument. In the choice of judges excellent wisdom has been shown and the character...