Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Quiet and desirable accommodations can be had for parties of ladies during the Class day and commencement seasons. The best of reference can be given. Apply to "Home," Cambridge, Mass...
...missing. The harm done is not so much the pecuniary loss as the inconvenience to which all the students of French are subjected. Hitherto they have been allowed unlimited liberties in the use of the books belonging to the French department. The reading-room has been a quiet and pleasant retreat, where all books necessary for the study of French could be obtained. Unless those volumes which have been taken are restored, it will be necessary to curtail the liberties now enjoyed by persons consulting the reference books, by placing the whole library of the French department under lock...
...considerable number of students, had assembled, who listened with interest to the oration, addresses, music, etc., which made up the programme. When all was over, the noise in the streets began again, and it was not till the veterans and escort had marched all around the yard that quiet was restored and the toiling student forgot, except for the extra number of loose muckers struggling about, that the day was known to all but him as Memorial...
Although the celebrations in which the students of Harvard occasionally indulge are often annoying to the seriously inclined and especially to the quiet inhabitants of Cambridge, there is invariably some cause for the celebrations, and in most cases a good and sufficient cause. Our celebrations, we believe, are always confined to victories, which have been won by our teams. At some of our sister colleges, however, this limit is overstepped. The slightest cause will often be considered sufficient for a celebration. At many of the smaller colleges the completion of the study of mathematics is seized upon as a suitable...
...practically deserted. The appearance of a wagon filled with lighted barrels near Thayer, soon brought up a large crowd from all directions. When this had been hauled out of the yard it burned brightly for some time and the crowd again began to disperse until all was again quiet. Such a display of enthusiasm has not been seen here for years. The Saturday's jubilee was overshadowed in almost every respect. The students were all out to see the fun and the wish of all seemed to be that the nine should win again and give Harvard moe cause...