Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hear, and thro' the calm air shrill...
...calm as yonder passing sail...
...champion of the Bursar, New London, College Poetry, the Echo, and any other thing under the sun which has, or fancies it has, received a slight from the Crimson. We do not know how to reconcile ourselves to the new order of things. What can we do without the calm, monotonous pleasure of a fortnightly Advocate? Henceforth we must seek relief from the Crimson's blood-curdling sensationalism and the Lampoon's Phoenix witticisms in the "???" editorials and elective pamphlet expositions of the Echo. Mental rest cannot be obtained from the perusal of a paper bristling with glass-pigtail similes...
...most heartily support the Advocate in its editoral article on retiring allowances for professors. It has long been a reproach to Harvard that her professors, when exhausted by a long life of mental labor and research, must expect no calm old age, but must continue on in the dull routine of lecture and recitation, until, like faithful and worn-out horses, they die still in the harness. The recognition by the College that it is a duty to provide for the declining years of those who have spent their youth in her service, not only ought to attract earnest scholars...
...heard something said, as by a calm, gentle, trusting voice; and I noticed that Dick recognized the voice. "My mother," said he. We listened: "Yes, Dick is a dear boy; he never touches a drop of wine." Dick looked a little uneasy, and laid down the glass of champagne he had been drinking. The rest of us felt a trifle uncomfortable, not knowing what might be coming. "He promised me he would n't, and he has never broken his word." Dick's face turned very red. "But he does n't like to offend his friends at college...