Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Faculty to barricade the royal road to learning cannot be called either a successful or a well-advised movement. We have never loudly remonstrated against the changes which, by raising the standard, added to our labors. We have endeavored, during the year that is closing, to take as calm a view as possible of all the differences that have arisen between undergraduates and the powers above them. We have no desire now to break out into violent language, - to rail against "tyrants and oppressors," in speaking of the new rule by which every one who enjoys "the privilege of attending...
...first article censures the actions of some professors with regard to voluntary recitations, and ends with the statement: "In some courses voluntary recitations are now simply a farce." I can hardly believe that a calm examination of the facts would bear out this assertion, and it would be well to remember that in all probability the Faculty did not make the Senior recitations voluntary in order to render Senior year a comfortable "loaf...
...though I hope, with philosophic calm...
...feel calm and quiet? I did. Nothing but an explosion could have roused me. Did n't I feel pure? Yes, almost too pure for this earth. I believe now that a little dirt is healthy. I never wish to come so near being boiled into a spirit again. The Doctor said it was good for a cold. It was; I have had one ever since...
...example, at Memorial Hall? Not only are Juniors and Seniors, Freshmen and Sophomores, compelled to eat exactly similar provisions, but classical men and mathematical men, those who are destroying themselves with chemicals, those who are wandering in the wilds of mediaeval history, and those who are floating in the calm atmosphere of philosophy, are one and all required to eat the same kind of food, with no other difference than squash or no squash, potatoes mashed or potatoes boiled...