Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...egotism of the human animal itself. But I can tell you for your comfort that the chief cure for it is to interest yourself, to lose yourself, in some issue not personal to yourself--in another man's trouble or, preferably, another man's joy. But if the dark hour does not vanish, as sometimes it doesn't; if the black cloud will not lift, as sometimes it will not; let me tell you again for your comfort that there are many liars in the world, but there are no liars like your own sensations. The despair and the horror...
...University Mineralogical Museum has recently received two very interesting and valuable additions. A friend has given the Museum a huge amethyst which is crystallized in about five hundred hexahedral prisms. This stone, which is remarkable for its size and dark purple color, was found in Minas Geraes, Brazil...
...pseudo-governor is discovered, and he goes back to his old occupation of porter; and finds his affinity in a German maid of Priscilla's. The Americans are seized, as implicated in the hoax, and they try to return to 1908, but lose the charm. Matters are looking very dark for them, when the scene suddenly changes and they wake up to find themselves back in Boston...
...rather vague attempt at character drawing. The two bits of verse are not noteworthy. The articles deserving of comment are the Editorial and Varied Outlooks. The first draws its theme from Mr. Wister's remarks, and then goes on to discuss the college career. The conclusion is dark College is a place to "broaden one's mind" but not through ineffectual pecking at all sorts of unrelated things, and not in "contact with men," which too often means becoming part of a clique. It is a place where we should learn to work as well as to play, where...
...game must be started promptly at 3.30 o'clock in order to ensure its being finished before dark. To obviate all possibility of unfairness or interference on the part of the spectators, it has been decided to call the game off in case anything occurs to disturb the progress of the play...