Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hockey season for 1922-23 will begin with a meeting of all candidates for the University and Freshman teams on Monday, November 27, at 7.30 o'clock in the Quiet Room of the Union. W. H. Claflin '15, Head Coach of Hockey, George Owen Jr. '23, captain, and B. D. Nash '23, manager, will speak on the plans for the coming season. There will be a meeting of all candidates for second assistant manager of the University team in the Union at 1.05 of the same...
This humble desire to have one's name perpetuated is very noble, and all the industry, toil, and diligence applied in the whittling very praiseworthy. The melodious drone of the instructor and the sleepy quiet of the drowsy students are strong incentives, perhaps, for all this extra-curriculum work; for, as Sir Thomas Browne once said, "To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in over quietness, and no laboriousness in labor...
...Offer Prizes for the Best Cough and the Loudest Handkerchief Operations. The main reading room and Lower Widener are practically the best sort of proving grounds for those coughs which are above normal strength. In those rooms, everyone else tries to be quiet. That is the psychological moment to test out a rippling, rolling, resounding cough or a crackling, recalcitrant nose...
...know, my dear Mr. Editor, that there will be those among the silly serious students who will think my program unduly generous. But, I ask, what avail the compunctions and decorum of five hundred students if a small but determined minority hold the balance between quiet and confusion in their power? There will be these, too, who say this is an attack upon personal liberty. I for one, stand for the autocracy of decorum. --HARRY REIFF '25. November...
...John Singer Sargent, Honorary '16, has finished work on his two mural paintings on either side of the Memorial Room in Widener Library. They were unveiled Wednesday, in a quiet manner with no ceremony...