Word: clamoring
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...time has at length arrived for our semi-annual editorial on the propriety of handing in blue books at these last few recitations of the first half-year. In a few weeks we shall all be clamoring for the return of these selfsame blue books from our instructors, -the self-same books, it is true, but also, how changed. It therefore seems but simple justice that we should heed the lesser clamor of our instructors and turn over to their keeping for a few days the books in which "what we do not know" will soon be written...
...cosy fire, listening to his pleasant chat, we think, "lo, how charming is a college life; so quiet, so peaceful, so free from care." This thought has hardly passed through our minds, when a horrid noise re-echoes from the wall, rolling from story to story with wild clamor; at last it dies away, and when silence reigns again we gasp, with dismay, "What on earth was that?" "That," says Snodkins, taking his cigarette from his lips, and blowing fragrant little rings of smoke into the air, "that is a man who bought a drum before the election...
...safe to assert that it would be difficult to find a more uproarious place at night than the environs of Harvard, and especially of Harvard square. The noise and clamor continue until alter midnight. It is a mixture of noises compounded of passing bands, cheering, yells and street car bells. There is at least one sufferer who has found scarcely any sleep, or opportunity or mood for study for the last two weeks. Cambridge outrivals some of the worst cities of the west. This is an unfortunate fact, especially after what has been heard of Eastern culture and refinement...
...noisy nuisance, thankfully let it be said, is now over, and only the minor noises will interrupt the solitude of the ancient square until the nine begins to roll up its victories next spring. Then our Western friend will learn what real noise is: yes, and help swell the clamor, too, unless we are greatly mistaken...
...Servia, will contribute a paper on "Literature and Science" to the April number of the Manhatten magazine, which will contain some of the matter of his lecture of the same title as well as much that is new. It is said to have some sharp thrusts at those who clamor for a "practical" education, and will be read with much interest by all interested in that question...