Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chess Club of the University will hold its first meeting of the year tonight at 7.30 o'clock in the Quiet Room of the Union. All men registered in the University, and particularly first-year students, who are interested in chess are invited to be present at this meeting...
...present engagement. It is still more unfortunate that the last performance has already been given. It is the triumph of his extensive repertoire; a part in which he, personally, equals the greatest of our classical actors. He looks the part to perfection and his acting is remarkable for the quiet dignity and pathetic grandeur with which he so vividly portrays Bulwer-Lytton's conception of the greatest prime minister of history...
Edward Frederic Benson, whose "Dodo" set agog all English society in the "Naughty Nineties," has added another successful novel to his long and creditale list. "Robin Linnet" besides being an easy and diveritng story of English country life among the "quiet rich," introduces in the person of its hero a living character, the charm of whose personality cannot but endear him to the most hardened of fiction hounds...
...limits man's alloted span to three score years and ten and says that though he attain to four score years they shall bring him nothing but sorrow and bitterness. Scientists, on the other hand, tell us that a man can only live long, if he "vegetates" in a quiet sheltered community. Occasionally, however, we find an individual, who refutes both doctrines, by leading a vigorous life and continuing his activity during a hale old age, to his own satisfaction, and to the benefit of the community...
...more recent picture, taken in 1900, shows John, the orangeman's cart, and donkey. The transformation which has taken place around the college during the last thirty-five years is seen in a picture of the Square in 1885. The square looks very quiet with only a few teams and a couple of horse-cars in sight...