Word: sicklying
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...representations contains a special reference to the life beyond the grave. All other monuments. however, represent merely common scenes of daily life, without any reference to death except that contained in the general atmosphere of sadness in the figures. There are very few stones on which either a sick or a dead person is represented...
...pole. After Leavitt had won the event handily, breaking the record, the measurers declared themselves much relieved that their decision had not affected the result. As to the Yale men's statement that Shearman lent Leavitt a pole last year, it is only necessary to state that Leavitt was sick and did not compete in the intercollegiate meeting...
Arrangements to collect old periodicals and newspapers and deliver them to the sick in the Boston City Hospital have been made by students. At least one ward can be supplied with reading matter. All magazines and periodicals will be acceptable, no matter how old, and will be called for on addressing R. L. Weeks, 74 Sacramento street...
...Hapgood discusses "Carlyle's Estimate of the Eighteenth Century." He does not agree with Carlyle that it was a "decrepit, death-sick era," when Addison, Defoe, Richardson founded the essay, the newspaper, the novel, when Burns, Goethe, Schiller were enriching poetry; when science was making enormous strides under the impulse of Franklin, Newton, Herschel. The writer concludes with a comparison of "Carlyle's harsh estimate" with "Mr. Lecky's admirable summary...
Arrangements to collect old periodicals and newspapers and deliver them to the sick in the Boston City Hospital have been made by students. At least one ward can be supplied with reading matter. All magazines and periodicals will be acceptable, no matter how old, and will be called for on addressing R. L. Weeks. 74 Sacramento street...