Word: disturbance
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sensitive nerves of the College were badly shattered. There is little enough at Harvard to venerate, and that little should be carefully preserved. Such customs, though perhaps barbaric relics of the past, are deserving of some respect; and to interfere with them when they occur so seldom, and disturb the comfort of so few, seems to us wholly unnecessary...
...about the time when the mayflower comes out, you know, and sixteen must needs go to Spectacle Pond, where she said they grew best, and I went with her. Not that I care for the flower much; indeed, I suggested to sixteen that it was a pity to disturb them, as they looked so prettily as they grew. But she reminded me that they were all covered with leaves then, and somehow I felt shut...
...which found their way into the College papers, their conduct did not give undivided satisfaction. Therefore we flatter ourselves that, high authority to the contrary notwithstanding, the College press is not without some appreciable influence. This year these literary policemen of ours have not conversed in tones which would disturb men outside of a radius of twenty feet, nor have they dropped the long window-stick more than once an hour on the average, nor have they even walked, two by two, past any given man more than a half-hour by the clock. This is in the highest degree...
...firm hold on the water; and his back and shoulders (and also No. 4's) should be kept more firmly set and rigid. All superfluous body motions exhaust the strength of the men who make them, render it more difficult for those behind them to keep time, and disturb the trim of the boat...
CORRESPONDENTS of the Boston Transcript have given their views this week upon the behavior of undergraduates at the Boston theatres. Much of what they say is only too true, and we are among those conservative persons who believe that a few men have no right to disturb a large number of their fellow-beings by disturbances in public places. We have heard the other side of the question maintained. There seems to be an idea in some minds that if a person disapproves of actions either on the stage or in the auditorium of a theatre, his proper course...