Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Every branch of Athletics is now so quiet that nothing of interest can be said or written. The New York Athletic Club held two days' sport at Gilmore's Garden, New York, but the times made were poor, and the races devoid of any particular interest. The mile-run was won in 4 min. 52 1/2 sec. (we think) by a man with 58 yards' start, which would make him about as good as 5 min. or 5 min. 2 sec., for the full distance. The times made in the bicycle race were very poor, one two-mile heat being...
...direct me to a quiet house in Cambridge where I can pass my last two years at the Law School in peace? I don't want to go more than three miles away; I will not go where there is a musical instrument (masculine, feminine, or neuter), and the rules of the house must prohibit duns, pedlers, subscription agents, editors, and, in short, everybody. I don't think I exact too much; at least my instructors (to whom I refer) never thought me much too exact at recitations...
Such unnatural happiness could not thrive long, At last the blow came that was to cut me off from all hope of a quiet life in that neighborhood...
...This year I took a ground-floor room in Holworthy, thus making sure of having no one beneath me, and having ascertained that two very quiet Seniors were above me. But I did not enjoy my peace of mind two hours. I had no sooner thrown myself on my lounge to think over my comfortable prospects, than I was startled by a tremendous yell of 'Jim' just outside my window. As my name happens to be Jim, I thought that there must be some very urgent need of me, and flung open the window just in time to hear...
...there's no use in denying it, we are cliquish; even Doggy can't prove the contrary, though he says there's no reason why Quiet, whom no one ever notices, should n't enjoy college; and we have a great many cliques, and very narrow ones. In each class there are one or two swell cliques, devoted to lawn-tennis and clothes; an athletic set, who spend hours in exercise of various sorts, and the rest of their time in feeling each other's muscles, and reading the "Spirit of the Times"; a studious crowd, to which...