Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dear Wieringen Friends: I am sorry only to be able to write you goodbye. In order not to alarm the people, my return to the Fatherland must take place in great quiet...
Although the nine essays may be put roughly into four classes, there is a diversity to their subject matter, and a skill in their composition, that betrays a mind containing quiet thoughtful recesses, and at the same time, keen accurate feelers that run out and through things. Five of the articles are concerned rather fundamentally with specific problems of collegiate education; which should not be taken to mean that they are uninteresting, for they are not, but distinctly stimulating, and of real value to the outside world. The reader will find discussions of the curriculum, of "The theory...
...Parliament is there. It exists. I use it whenever necessary. ... It is very quiet, behaves itself and doesn't create much disturbance. I don't know about the Parliaments in other countries. Every country has its own history and its own problems which must be handled according to the tastes and needs of those countries...
Christopher Morley has as good a time living his life as any man I've ever met. He seems always to be happy, always in the mood for the quiet enjoyment of food, a pipe, conversation. His zest for life is amazing. Some years back it caused him to produce book after book, although they were varyingly successful and, to the discriminating, often only mildly amusing. He was the most prolific of essayists, but his stories smelt strongly of the study and of a too intimate acquaintance with the classics. However, Christopher Morley, both in his poetry and his prose...
...kick in 1916 defeated Princeton by a scan three points, there were few who would have predicted that Harvard would wait seven years for a chance to celebrate another victory over the Tigers. But seven years made the victory on Saturday all the more magnificent; no words written in quiet retrospect can add luster to such a triumph. But every Harvard man who saw the game will long treasure the picture of a splendid eleven fighting as the under dog, outplaying itself, deter mined to accept nothing but victory" and in the end winning that success which every Harvard...