Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back many scores of years to the days when it was called the "Horn Spree" and when gun powder was used with less freedom than it is now. But the tradition dictates that there shall be a suspension of hostilities on Sunday evening. It is enough to disturbe the calm of the night on week days--Polar's Recess is out of order on Sunday night, and we hope that undergraduates will observe the custom to the extent of limiting their Sunday demonstration to the heaving of a gentle sigh and the turning of another page at 9 o'clock...
Then fired with religious zeal to serve he goes "down among the multitude" in France. It is France behind the lines in wartime, people with men and women from the four corners of the earth, men and women tensed in a chaos that has engulfed the world. With a calm serenity lie goes to serve here as he has served at home, but his services are nothing. Doubt batters his firm beliefs until, contrasted with actuality they fade into shadows. There is but one path open to him if he is to serve these people he must mingle closely with...
...ever disappointed; the joke was always forth-coming and, what is more, it was always good. After two minutes of Mr. Murphy, no one in the house was able to take as anything but a joke the murder of a financier, the hysterics of his wife, or the calm plot of the hero to have himself killed so that his life insurance might save his bank from ruin. Yet somehow, there is no hint of burlesque in this rendering of the "detective" theme; it is not that the play "makes fun" of anybody or anything; it simply is very funny...
Despite the heavy driving rain, all the University crews were out on the river yesterday, and, in view of the fact that the water was unusually calm, were given a considerable amount of hard rowing. Two minor changes in the seating of the second and third crews have been made. N. C. Webb '23 has gone to 6 on the second crew, while Dennet Withington '22 has moved from 6 on the second to 6 on the third crew...
...considered a waste of space to give attention to such on innocuous, bit of rhetoric as this. It is however not only because of its general vacuity but because of the calm way in which it ignores the events of the day that we call attention to it. Liberals pride themselves on being progressive--up with the times. And yet these...