Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heavy basses and the airy, melodious tones of the boy singers at chapel. In all earnestness, we must take more care of ourselves at this time of year, and not suffer an ignominious cold to seize upon us and make us miserable for the coming weeks, and disturb the chapel exercises...
There has been much complaint lately of unnecessary noises in the college dormitories. While these noises have not been so great as to attract the attention of proctors, they have been sufficient to disturb more than one man whose mind, for the moment, was bent on "grinding." It is not very soothing to the nerves to hear a wrestling match going on over one's head; to hear a long struggle, as indicated by the falling of chairs and tables, and then to know, from an awful thud and a jar which almost shakes the globes from the chandeliers, that...
...sorry to have to call attention once more to the conduct of men who use the reading-room in the library as a place for discussion and conversation. There are two men in particular, - we could name them if we wished to, - who regularly disturb half the room every morning by their loud discussions on athletics and recitations. We have often remarked on the selfishness of such conduct which is all the more inexcusable as the reading-room is to many men the only place in college where they are able to secure anything like absolute quiet. To such...
...always playing tricks upon the unwary, in which he is usually discomfited. A typical example of the Devil in the literature of this time is found in the story of his persecution of St. Dunstan. He was constantly visitting the saint's blacksmith shop to make sinful suggestions and disturb the holy man's pious meditations. But one day, as the Devil poked his head in at the window, the doughty saint caught his diabolical nose in red hot pincers, and the Devil fled howling, to trouble the saint no more...
When the shades of evening came, a very natural desire to sing stirred them, so they persuaded a middle aged man, found for the occasion, to ask the school-farm if it would disturb her, etc., etc. Her hearty approval of the plan, her evident enjoyment of the cornet solo and college songs which followed, and still more the fact that she joined in and sang with them whenever she chanced to know the air, made things quite social, and the young men showed their appreciation by singing "Sweet Dreams Ladies," in an off hand manner, just...