Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...actual practise. Finally don't study up to the last moment. Take a good breakfast then take a shave and a quiet smoke between 9 and 10 o'clock and then go into the examination room with a clear head and a calm philosophic frame of mind...
...these men are many and varied. Their nature is often displayed in their boisterous actions in the street, in recitation rooms and elsewhere, but at this period of the year, they seem to believe it their special province to do whatever they can to disturb the quiet and calm of the study-room, either forgetful that the examinations are approaching, or fiendishly taking delight in making themselves a nuisance to the unfortunate persons who are compelled to lodge near them. If there is anyone now on the point of ignoring his position as a member of an organism...
...such a university cultivating righteousness as the medium of faith must come great privileges. We love to think that she must become a great home of reconciliations. In her calm and lofty air, the friends of whom the world would make, foes must meet and own their friendship, science and religion, faith and reason, individuality and society, conservatism and radicalism, poverty and wealth, the past and the future - these must join hands and walk in peace with one another in a city of scholars where not in the base spirit of compromise, but in the higher atmosphere of universal...
...regimentals of a soldier of '61, and a rather effective uniform in the mass. A transparency at the head of the parade gave a cartoon of the "lone Indian freshman," of 1636," and on the other side, the fierce declaration - "Here we are, '90. Look out!" coupled with the calm assertion that "90 is the brightest class in many a year." A bulletin signed "C. J.," another proof of the extreme subtlety of freshman wit, warned all students from entering the yard during the celebration. Still another asserted that the college had been "waiting for '90, 250 years;" this...
...contests. Is this the practice that will enable Harvard to play a game of base-ball that shall be worthy the name? Steadiness in play, presence of mind at critical moments cannot be gained by competition with clubs which are beaten with the score in the twenties. The calm game played by Columbia yesterday was something new to the Harvard students. We have seldom seen a Harvard nine play with such confidence. This is what our team needs, and on the eye of one of the most critical games of the season, this it must gain. The work...