Word: quiet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college, Mr. Black said, Barrie was a great favorite with his classmates, but much as he was beloved by them for his manly and beautiful character, few of them ever imagined that he was soon to acquire a world wide reputation as an author. He was a quiet fellow and good at his studies. After leaving college he went into journalism from which he finally branched off as an author. In 1889 he published his best known work, "A Window in Thrums," and in 1892, "A Little Minister," and this last named book is the last work that Barrie...
Whereas, The death of A. H. Linder, through a sad and unfortunate accident, has taken from the club a man who was highly esteemed and respected by all for his quiet and manly bearing...
...loss of a sincere friend, each member of the class has felt that the loss has come to him as something personal. Your son was a man whom we were proud to call a classmate and who stood to us as the representative of all that was quiet and manly...
...friends, to whom his death comes as a sudden and painful blow. His cheerful disposition and manly bearing attracted to him many who did not know him intimately and to these as well as to his closer friends, his death is a sad loss. In temperament he was so quiet and unassuming that it is not until he has been taken away that his friends realize what he was to them...
...Saturday at his home in Wakefield, at the age of twenty-four. He had been ill since March with tuberculosis, but took his degree with his class. Living at home during his entire college course he was not widely known in the class, but his friends will remember his quiet, earnest manner...