Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Ziba Smith and Sarah Howes. He obtained his early education under great difficulties, working on his father's farm and walking ten miles daily to school. He graduated from Ames Academy, Shelburne Falls, and passed the Harvard examinations for the class of '95. At college he continued the same quiet and industrious manner of life, studying hard and making few friends. He graduated in three years, joining '94 only a day or two before Commencement. In the autumn of 1894 he went to Brooklyn as clerk in the law office of Grout, De Ferr and Mayer, and likewise attended...
Modest and unassuming in disposition, his general acquaintance in the class was not large. But those who knew him will never cease to be influenced by the memory of his gentleness and quiet strength of character. His life among us was a noble example of conscientious devotion to duty and to his own high ideals of faith and conduct...
Tonight the eleven will be taken out to Auburndale after the practice so as to have the advantage of quiet for the last three days before the Princeton game. The practice today will again be secret...
Professor Child always led a true scholar's life of quiet and tranquillity. He was a great lover of nature and cultivated flowers with his own hands. His rose garden, which is known for miles around, contains the greatest collection of roses to be found in this vicinity...
...explosives are at best a poor way of celebrating and a wretched nuisance to Cambridge citizens. Often they are far more than a nuisance. It might frequently happen that at the time of the celebration some persons living near the Yard might be seriously ill, and perhaps dependent upon quiet for their lives. The firing of giant crackers or guns near the house of such persons would be a piece of thoughtlessness that would be almost criminal. During the celebration the other night it is known that several people who were very sick were badly disturbed by the noise...