Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 14.- Sunday is always a quiet day with oarsmen in training for a race, but this has been not only an unusually quiet day but one of very depressing influences upon the crews of Harvard. Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. It rained hard from daybreak to dusk. All of the oarsmen kept close to quarters all day, reading and sleeping. The Pennsylvanians had planned a trip up the river on their launch to make friendly calls on their neighbors of Harvard and Columbia, but the water was so rough that the proposed visitations were abandoned...
Colonel Hallowell spoke in a quiet unpretentious effective way that gave him the closest attention throughout...
...Dobyns '98 presided and after a few preliminary remarks by him, H. C. Lakin L. S. was called upon to speak. The latter spoke of the increasing importance which college debating has been taking in the last few years and contrasted the present enthusiastic send-off to the quiet departure of the debaters for the debate of a few years ago in which he participated. He closed by assuring the debaters of the hearty good wishes of the College, and urging them to remember that, to the public at large Harvard's supremacy is chiefly held through the successes...
School work should be expressed in terms of power to do. And the teacher should be willing to keep quiet and let the pupil work...
After sketching President Sparks's term of office which began in 1849 and noting his opposition to the elective system, President Eliot concluded by contrasting the quiet state of the University during the fifties with the period of distraction and turmoil which followed during the Civil War. He referred...