Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first number of volume fifty-one of the Advocate is not quite up to the usual standard. One of the chief faults is the predominance of tragedy; for four out of six stories are distinctly tragic, and three of these actually end in sudden death...
...Stormy Evenings," has evidently discarded the suggestions which an editorial in the first Advocate of the year made,- in effect that everyday life and familiar college incidents are most worthy of the attention of the writer for college papers. For in this particular story, there is plenty of the tragic and blood-curdling, plenty of scenes far removed from ordinary human life. The mingling of disappointed love, hate, thirst for revenge, compacts with Satan, and murder in one crucible is so seldom seen in college stories, that it would be hard to criticize this tale from a college standpoint...
...members of the class of 1890, wishing to express our heartfelt sorrow at the sudden and tragic death of Edward Anson Seeley, the first of our classmates to be taken from us since graduation, pass the following resolutions...
...even in this fashion it is still true that one great element of the evil in the world remains not only unexplained, but from our finite point of view inexplicable. Such evil as tends to make the world serious, and even tragic, may be justified by its very significance as a part of the stern, moral order, But the genuinely disheartening evils of the world are those blind absurdities and caprices of human fortune, which everywhere seem to make the world not spiritual but trivial, and life not a significant struggle for a great end, but a contemptible conflict with...
Last evening Professor Royce, in his course on Modern Thinkers, spoke of Schopenhaner. This philosopher's doctrine is often wholly misunderstood even by his followers; his opponents especially fail to conceive its dignity. The right opinion is to judge the world as tragic, and we should not try to refute Schopenhauer, but grapple with the tragedy...