Word: death
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God, in his infinite mercy, to remove by death, during the past vacation, our companion and classmate, ALFRED HENRY JONES...
Resolved, That, while we his classmates, in common with his many other friends, share in the loss sustained by his death, we feel that this blow has fallen with peculiar force upon ourselves, to whom he has endeared himself by his many talents, and as a genial companion and a warm and true friend...
...round us the air is heavy, silent and still as death...
...learned ignorance," which Socrates was the first to expose. It is of the first that Kenelm Chillingly is a type. It is the second that he takes pains to deride. We have no room to speak of the other characters of the book, - of Lilly, for whose death no one can lament, for by such a woman the hero would have been influenced in the direction of his weakness rather than in that of his strength; of Mivers, and his Londoner, so like in principle to a periodical nearer home. The incidents with which the book abounds are all very...
...evident that another dreary time of waiting was inevitable. To relieve the monotony, small bets and dollar sweep-stakes were made, and among the large family-parties luncheons were eaten before hungry collegians, whose only solace was pea-nuts or doubtful lemonade. On the eastern shore, "The Death of the Rat," a tragedy in several acts, was performed before a select audience...