Word: disturbance
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...though an advantage, was no sure stepping-stone to favor at Harvard, and that a lack of it is no hindrance to preference and position. My observation has abundantly convinced me of this, and I always refer to it with pride. Any movement from within or without tending to disturb this natural and healthy state of things by raising the artificial cry of alms or charity, where good sense and manliness discover only labor rewarded and ability recognized, should be most unsparingly denounced...
...sent before the Crimson published my letter recommending that the proposed Freshman race between Harvard and Cornell be appointed for some other locality. If it is too late now to persuade the Freshmen to keep away from the Thames course at a time when their presence there may disturb the very delicately balanced arrangements required for the success of the Harvard-Yale race, I most earnestly hope that they may at least consent to name Monday, June 30, as the earliest date for their race. That will allow the Harvard-Yale crews one chance for postponement in case rough water...
...College Yard was knee-high, when there was absolutely nothing to do and nobody to do it, that I took refuge in the Library. Even here, in this sanctuary of learning and of wit, there was an oppressive feeling of loneliness. It seemed like a sacrilege to disturb the deep silence by pushing open the creaking doors. The books stared me out of countenance, and the busts glared at me as at an intruder. I sat down with a grim determination to be amused; but after an hour's hard work, I concluded that the dulness of the classic city...
...community like ours, prolixity in our social relations must be endured to some extent; our prosy friend will often knock at our door at unseemly hours, disturb our quiet, and exhaust our patience, but, at least, let us be spared this abomination in our recitation-rooms and in our textbooks...
...disturb my dreaming...