Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...busy day and a half is in store, for the delegates to the convention of the Association of College and University Unions, until they adjourn after luncheon tomorrow. This morning will be spent in a business meeting in the Quiet Room of the Union, while in the afternoon the visitors will take a motor trip to points of interest around Cambridge and Boston. A dinner to the delegates and Mr. Mark Sullivan '00 will be followed by Mr. Sullivan's lecture at the Union, which will end the day's activities. Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, a final business...
Before the meeting Dr. Gilkey will be the guest of the Christian Association for dinner in the Quiet Room of the Union at 6.15 o'clock. To this dinner all members of the Association cabinet are invited...
Before the meeting Professor Fitch will be the guest of the Society at dinner in the Quiet Room of the Union at 6.30 o'clock, open only to embers of the Graduate Schools Society Committee...
There will be contributions from the ranks--never yet fairly counted--of believers in international good-will, and from many obscure men and women who are working in a hundred quiet ways for the betterment of the world. They are eager to show their faith in progress. They have gained fresh confidence in the popular response to every forward stop taken by the Washington conference. They believe that public opinion has advanced far beyond the position taken by official opinion. They hold that anyone who invests in a closer moral and political organization of the world, in the spread...
...Herbert's quiet, amused humor is beyond words refreshing to senses somewhat worn by the boisterous and often raucous jesting of our native humorists. There is much that provokes a smile in these "Rays of Moonshine", and there is no less frequent cause for unrestrained laughter. The book as a whole is peculiarly satisfying. Its contents are imbued with that understanding of the eternal child lurking in every man of any sensitiveness--that understanding which drew from Carlyle the penetrating remark, "Laughter means sympathy". Such laughter Mr. Herbert awakens, such sympathy--sympathy with the human being so situated...