Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seeing no middle ground in physical exercise, or if he sees middle ground he denies that it is recognized here at Harvard. In answer to this we need only ask the writer to use his eyes in the gymnasium any afternoon. There he will see plenty of men doing quiet gymnastic exercise either by themselves or in classes under Dr. Sargent...
...that it becomes a long physical strain which is quite beyond the endurance of the average student, and the severity of this training distorts the whole view of physical exercise. Then again our athletic contests are carried on with so much noise, with so much cheering and shouting, that quiet, unassuming exercise in the gymsaium, which gets no applause, no reward of victory over an opponent, suffers very much by contrast. Special lines of athletics have largely taken the place of general exercise to the extent that the ordinary student rather laughs at light gymnastics. Yet this view...
...play football. Something must be done, and done soon, to turn some of the enthusiasm which now holds almost exclusively to athletic contests. Though oratory and argument cannot be practiced on an open field every afternoon before grand stands full of enthusiastic students, they are yet, in their quiet way, quite as important as football; and the sooner people see their importance, the sooner the false impression which follows this athletic craze will be dispelled. At tonight's debate every man who cares to compete will be given a chance, and the best interests of the University demand that...
...this to show their disregard of conventionalities. Though one should never be a "clothes loving man," as Carlyle calls the "Dandy;" still you owe it to your friends and to your position in society to conform to the customs of refined society. True economy demands good clothes of quiet colors and patterns, unless you can afford an assortment. The rough cheviots, if composed of two distinct shades, one quite dark and the other light, will nearly always look poorly when the rough surface wears off; the best wearing colors are without contrasting shades. The blue and black cheviots and Oxford...
...this to show their disregard of conventionalities. Though one should never be a "clothes loving man," as Carlyle calls the "Dandy;" still you own it to your friends and to your position in society to conform to the customs of refined society. True economy demands good clothes of quiet colors and patterns, unless you can afford and assortment. The rough cheviots, if composed of two distinct shades, one quite dark and the other light, will nearly always look poorly when the rough surface wears off; the best wearing colors are without contrasting shades. The blue and black cheviots and Oxford...