Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...solid exterior is the heavy woodwork, iron s aircases and tiled floors, all giving the impression that the building was made to last through many years of hard usage. Though substantial and solid in appearance, the building, neither without nor within, is unsightly, the decoration and finish in the quiet style and colors now prevalent satisfying even the eye of the artist. The first specific thing which attracts attention is an inscription on the wall above the staircase, giving in a few words a short history of the medical department of Harvard. The first lectures were given...
...rectangular tables in the dining hall. It requires only a few months for a student to get used to the hurry-of his fellow students, not of the waiters, and the noise and clatter. If later he happens to take a meal at a private table, he notices the quiet, is almost puzzled by it, and would really feel more at ease in the noisy hall...
...others ; the peanuts and candy are for his hungry self. But to all hungry men we would give this advice, that, if they must eat, they take a better place than the library reading-room ; or, if they must be constantly and uninterruptedly chewing, they try something more quiet than peanuts or candy,-say, chewing gum. Chewing gum is both soft and sweet, is warranted not to hurt the tender gums or the growing teeth, and possesses the additional advantage of being able to be used with comparative quiet. It is perfectly harmless ; even the smallest child...
...once all day long did these young men speak to their unknown companion, or, as far as she could tell, take any notice of her whatever. They simply pursued their own way, and let her, from her quiet corner, enjoy it all undisturbed...
...only familiarity, surely a mild one, and is it not credible to any society, to any country that such a thing as this can be done? That girls and women can go safely, comfortably, happily from one end of this country to the other, with only their own quiet and modest behavior as a protector. An American man never seems to question the propriety at all. One glance tells him the lady, alone, helpless, in need perhaps of some service. He does the right thing at the right time, as by a fine instinct, which is surely wanting...