Word: morbid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nation with loyalty of a "possibly illogical nature." Perhaps he thinks the present Senior class will agree with him in his picture of the men they honored by refusing to withdraw their names from the list of Class Day Officers, as "scrambling for a landing in Cuba" under a "morbid impulse for personal excitement." Perhaps it is becoming for men who have been so fortunate as to receive the best education the country can give, to openly taunt patriotic fellow-countrymen by assuring them that their "loss by yellow fever will mean much less to the country than ours...
...This sketch deals intelligently and feelingly with the topic about which ninety-five per cent. of modern French novels are written. R. C. Bolling 1900, the author of "In Alien Earth," has proved that a short story may be on the subject of water-rotted corpses without being essentially morbid. Somehow or other "The Disappointment of Lord Hartleigh," by E. W. S. Pickhardt '98, with all its facility, fails to interest...
...taken by the outside public as more or less representive of Harvard life. As a matter of fact, it is representative of only "a very little corner" thereof, and represents this corner in a far from attractive light. With the exception of Haydock, all the characters are unmanly, snobbish, morbid or unhappy. That such characters exist in every college class is of course undeniable, but they are, after all, not typical of this University or, let us hope, of any other...
...sympathy with the Duke of Burgundy. Though the apprentice himself remains throughout a somewhat colorless onlooker, he manages to give us a striking account of a fifteenth-century siege, with its excitement and its horrors. In this story, too, there is sensation, but it is not of a morbid kind...
...pleased to note how frequently the Advocate has published stories of college life, and that the vogue for grewsome and morbid tales is fast disappearing...