Word: sick
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Surprised at such a reception, I hesitated, thinking it some deep-laid plot to entrap me, but finally I entered. In a moment an elderly lady came rushing downstairs, and in one breath exclaimed, "So you are the doctor, are you? Well, come right up, for Rose is very sick." The plot thickens, I thought; but I was bound to continue, whatever the consequences might be, and I was only too eager when I thought that Rose was probably the fair one for whom I was searching. I followed, and was led to a little room...
...then making a creditable (though, as the result has proved, an ineffective) attempt to establish an "American Henley," by offering expensive challenge cups for the exclusive competition of undergraduate crews. As a matter of fact, however, the Freshmen of Columbia, as well as those of Harvard, grew heartily sick of their proposed contest long before the day for rowing it really arrived, and mutually abandoned it with a feeling of relief and "good riddance." This ending was a great relief also to the managers of the Harvard-Yale race, who, after urging that at least a week's interval ought...
...afraid if you are surprised, for you see only the material of that gigantic experiment for educating womankind. Come along, they have all gone out. This is not co-education, but after-co-education. Well, this is the place. Sit at the desk beside me, as Ralph is sick of the measles and will be away for several days...
...present method of taking meals from Memorial to a sick man is any thing but gratifying, either to the sick man or the waiter who carries his food to him. The waiter, in some cases, earns a small fee, but, in return, is obliged to do much extra work; and, even leaving the comfort or discomfort of the waiter out of the question, the student is not in the least well served. The waiter is obliged to wait till every one at his table has finished, so that he is at least an hour and a half late, and then...
Removed from these and the heart-sick turmoil...