Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Government is experimenting with a system of government controlled largely by Indians in a final attempt to quiet the discontent which had arisen with British rule, while the Extremist Party is working more strenuously than ever before to stir up the people to a revolution which will wipe out British rule entirely. The outcome is in the balance, and both sides are striving to make it tip their...
Brooks House is not a club-house; it is not even a center of undergraduate life. It can never and should never be either. As a building it is unique. It is a quiet house, a place for thought, meditation, prayer, if you please. Hence the rules against smoking and loud noise...
...recently been ascertained that the privileges of the Reading Room in the library are being abused in a manner that is as original as it is obnoxious. A group of students indulge in assembly of an evening around one of the tables, and instead of utilizing the sacred quiet unobtainable in most dormitories for composing eleventh-hour masterpieces in History, or heroically attempting to absorb three weeks' worth of Fine Arts in three hours, they make their books and papers a mask for a very congenial conversational society. By means of argument and repartee, now subdued and earnest, now noisy...
...Cosmopolitan Club will meet in the Quiet Room of the Union tonight at 7.30 to discuss and note on the new constitution. At the last regular meeting of the club it was decided to change the old constitution which had become antiquated and no longer it for the purpose of the club. Plans for the club dance, which will probably be held at the Union on February 19, will also be discussed at the meeting...
...magic of those two words--Christmas vacation--the University suddenly becomes a place of desolation. The Yard is a deserted village of silent houses, without even the rude clanging of the ever-zealous bell in old Harvard to break in upon its unnatural quiet. Even the gay rendezvous round the Square are forgotten for other parts. It is with light hearts that we turn from the nine o'clocks of this world to that other world of holiday cheer that comes only with Christmas. To its many friends, especially to those who are unable to return to distant homes...