Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SUMMER'S calm hangs o'er the sleeping land...
...abolition, are completely silenced; and all friends of that time-honored institution can quietly rejoice. Especially should the under classes feel glad that they have such a precedent to follow, and that, instead of the usual troubled season of caucuses and partisan tickets, they can hope for a calm selection of fitting men for the various offices. Before this it was thought incredible that sectional prejudice should not have stronger influence than personal qualifications in an election of officers for Class Day; but last Monday night both the unanimous selection of certain officers and the good-natured though eager strife...
...crackers awoke the calm reveries of loungers beneath "the elms of good old Yale" on Monday evening...
...There, there, calm yourself," said the Bell. "Well, now we're all here, what's the subject for discussion? Any news, brother...
...both ardor and length. We thought it prudent, however, to wait the arrival of the marks before acknowledging their receipt, and we do not regret our caution. The first marks did, indeed, appear like the harbingers of the much-desired reform, but their appearance has been followed by a calm of such protracted suspense that it has become impossible for us to carry out our cherished plan of an eloquent editorial. That the so-called marking system has become a trite butt of undergraduate indignation we are well aware; but when we turn from the instructors who keep...