Word: placide
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inter-collegiate athletic contests the faculty wish to have them done "decently and in order;" to be managed in such manner as not to interfere materially with the more serious duties of the student, or greatly disturb the ordinarily placid routine of undergraduate life; to make them incidents, not epochs, in college history; to limit their preliminary training within reasonable bounds as to expenditure, either of time or money; to totally abandon the employment of professional trainers or assistants; to avoid undue notoriety and its attendant unhealthy excitement; to forswear all gate-money speculation-in short, to conduct these contests...
...Stir thy placid depths and answer...
...wealth of placid joy would fain invade...