Word: placidness
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...hard student, on the handsome girls of their class who sallied to the party in company with the unexplained representative of his sex, man. There also, pitiable in the eyes of her who lives in the world, were the dean's assistants of the girls' college, just as placid and calm and unstirred by great living as they were four years ago. All was the same with them, strictly academic, all the same except a few pounds of added avoirdupois...
...Boston; Harold George Fitzgerald '19, Lawrence High; Carlton Percy Fuller '19; Mansfield High; Joseph Goldman '19, English High, Boston; Ralph Edward Greene '19, Palouse High, Wash., and University of Idaho; Nat D. Hirsch uC., Vanderbilt University; Frederick William Holmes '19, Milford High; Elihu Howard Kelton '19, Leominster High, Lake Placid High, N. Y., and Gardner High; George Delmar Leighton '19, Exeter; Francis Benedict McConaughty '19, Madisonville High, Cincinnati, O.; John Thomas Noonan '19, Searles High, Great Barrington; Frederick Leighton English Nosworthy '19, Middletown High, N. Y., and Windham High, Williamantic, Conn.; Samuel Rezneck '19, B. M. C. Durfee High, Fall...
Perhaps "The Glorious 17th" was a sermon on home ethics--who knows? Isn't there a sort of heart-string appeal in the placid features of the old man and the worried expression of his spouse? The fact that this group is of a race which the author forgets to name is simply because the 17th of March happened to be the most timely holiday to portray. If the issue had come next month, the "27th of April" would have done, being observed as a holiday among the Madagascans...
...result of the trial reading of commencement parts held in Sanders Theatre yesterday, the following Seniors have been chosen to speak on Commencement Day: Godfrey Dewey, of Lake Placid Club, N. Y.; Hans von Kaltenborn, of Madison, Wis.; Sidney Fiske Kimball, of Dorchester; and Fletcher Nichols Robinson, of Southern Pines, N. C. Palfrey Perkins 3D., of Salem, has been assigned to a commencement part from the Divinity School...
...score of years were making ready for actual work in the life of the world, when all had promise and the fulfillment seemed just beyond. Few years have passed since the University underwent similar suffering. It is such events as these that waken us from our wonted placid composure, and thrust home upon us the real significance of our life here. It is a time when the common grief vivifies a sincere sense of fellowship among us, and we realize what warm sympathy we shall ever hold for the fellow student who today is in great grief over the accidental...