Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Associated Harvard Clubs, representing Harvard organizations and Harvard men from the four corners of the earth and beyond the seven seas, greet you with assurances of profound respect, unqualified admiration, and boundless affection for one who combines the unconquerable spirit of youth with calm serenity of matured and trained judgment--to us the first of living Americans...
...precise longhand," with "some of the Olympian sweep of his spirit," form the only personal contact between the two men. Robert Littell in the New Republic recalls his early days as a teacher under Dr. Eliot, speaks of the warmth that lay under his austere interior, and of the calm and passionless force with which he gave rebuke or praise. Edwin Mead writes in the Springfield Republican of the courageous Eliot, the man who did not fear to speak his mind, even if he went unheeded in the face of a national blindness. John Jay Chapman writes down frankly...
Death came quietly to President Eliot in the sea-washed rugged hills of Mt. Desert Island. There was no blaring of trumpets, no dramatics, only the calm courage which had characterized his life. A few days before the end he startled his nurse with the quiet remark that he would not live out the week. Once or twice the old urge to be up and doing came upon him, but in the main he lay quietly waiting...
Time passed; there seemed little hope that the 47 Workshop was going to have the facilities which the advantages of modern stagecraft afford. Then came the calm at one of the least hopeful moments in the storm. Professor Baker had accepted, now that Harvard would not or could not furnish him with an equipment, an extremely generous offer from Yale. The funds and plans were arranged: Yale, Mr. Harkness and Professor Baker had announced their mutual willingnes to cooperate in a plan which for almost fourteen years had been the hope and goal of many American people--devotees...
...they wanted. A feud between Chantrells and Penmarches only heightened Stephen's determination to have Sally Penmarch, and the betrothal of Preston Baimbridge, the one man Cordelia had fixed upon, to Sally Penmarch "fazed" Cordelia no whit, even on the wedding morning. As her diary shows, she was calm in desperation and when she saw Sally slip off for a last canter alone, she sent Stephen after her with a mixture of humor and impatience. When Stephen failed to dissuade Sally, who loved him, really, after an argument in the woods that kept the wedding guests on tenterhooks, Cordelia...