Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday afternoon the races of the Canoe club, which had been postponed from Tuesday on account of rain, took place off the floats of the Union Boat Club. There was little wind and the water was quite calm...
...Jellinek said that to understand Burke we must take into account the circumstances that surrounded him. He never forgot his native country, and his speeches on Irish questions form the most valuable of his works. Burke was conservative and a utilitarian, always calm and just in his opinions and his actions. He wished to place Ireland on an equal commercial footing with England, and endeavored to show that Ireland's prosperity would be England's prosperity. When he entered on his political career, Ireland was regarded merely as a colony to be governed solely for the advantages of England...
...think, recognized that this was due as much to our bad luck in having some of our best men laid up as to anything. We have perfect confidence in our 'Varsity captain; but it is far better to "growl" a little in our anxiety than to sail on in calm and sublime confidence simply because we beat Wesleyan 110 to 0. This confidence is nothing but an other phase of "Harvard indifference," or whatever the proper name...
...conditions, they were wonderfully fine. The river was very calm, and whatever wind there was blew directly down the course. The tide, too, had turned, and everything seemed favorable for fast time, although it was hardly thought the record would be beaten. Harvard used her new English boat, about which so much has been said. Columbia rowed in a Waters shell...
This week is the dividing line of the two half-years, when society defers to the Lenten season, and the long line of class and society dinners begins. Everybody recognizes this to be the free time of the college year, the calm in the midst of the storm. In spite of the theses which were "sprung" uponsome of us immediately after mid-years, college work now presses very lightly upon us. It sat thus lightly on our shoulders at the beginning of the fall term; but the settlement of ourselves and our winter's work claimed much of our spare...