Word: calm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time-honored English universities, instead of holding up an ideal of sound learning and disinterested study, and checking the present Chinese current of popular belief, have degraded into mere examining machines. In the place of the calm pursuit of knowledge and the encouragement of original research, we have the hot competition of slaving undergraduates-for students we cannot call them,-who are taught that learning is of no value except in so far as it brings profit to themselves. Many of the mischievours results of the examination-system at these "ancient seats of learning," though now of cram, have already...
...save one-is beautiful and satisfactory to the eye; the turf is faultlessly smooth and green, the track carefully rolled; the brilliant costumes of the players are in striking contrast to the emerald lawn on which they stand; the benches are filled with radiant beauty, and everything is deliciously calm and soothing to our artistic feelings. But, while lounging in the shade under the walls of the old Pudding building, we notice that after all something is lacking in the scene. We try to think what it can be, and finally we discover it. Right before us stretching over...
...position until Monday, and they were obliged to crowd into the small boat-house and embark from the small float. On account of the high winds which are wont to prevail during this time of year, the water has been rather rough. Yesterday, however, the Charles was as calm as a mill-pond...
...mess of pottage." They are mature announcement of the change has thus done considerable mischief Since the faculty are but human, it can hardly be expected of them, in the face of this violent and irrational clamor to come to their final decision in the matter in a perfectly calm and unbiased spirit. No man can be subjected to such savage criticism, and not become either obstinate or fainthearted under it. This question of admission requirements, however, is one which should be decided neither by partisan feeling nor by timidity...
...years, the expense of the "plant." The students have for years PROTESTED against certain abuses in the janitor system. But our Parliament, with its advanced liberals and its ultra-conservatisms busy fighting one another, and all the rest absent; and our Overseers, "ninety-five in the shade," calm and tranquil,-how can we expect such as these to regard the wishes of the students, unless those wishes are expressed either in the "Explosive orotund" of gunpowder, or in the swelling choral tones that come from "One equal temper of heroic hearts" bound to be heard or smash something? Now. there...