Word: dismaler
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...EDITORS OF THE HERALD: It is a cold, disagreeable day here, and I cannot help being glad I am not at Wellesley, for it is doubly dismal there on a rainy day. Everything is shrouded and dull, and lessons seem to go wrong. Since the death of Mr. Durant, founder and munificent patron of the college, we have had quite a change in the management of affairs. A long vacation was voted the president, and our professor of history was made vice-president, and is becoming very popular among the students. Some time ago a party of Harvard men came...
...stop the dismal clanging of that bell...
...long-promised musical events of the season have been given this week. The musical eccentricity," "Robinsonade," has not been saved from insufferable stupidity, to our taste, by the clever adaptation of Mr. Childs, and the laudable efforts of the actors. It is truly Germanic in its dismal wit. "The Lark," music by Strauss, text ("Le Reveillon") by Meilhac and Halevy, is quite another thing. The music is very pretty, the adaptation of the libretto very well done, while both singing and acting are more than fairly good...
...rest unmourned for in the dismal tomb...
...hollow, dismal tone...