Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...possibility of an arrangement between the owners of the machine used for lighting this building and the college authorities, whereby the light could be introduced into the college library and perhaps into the yard. It may be urged that its use for lighting the yard would bring the quiet retirement of the latter into the rude glare of publicity. The still air of delightful studies would be tainted with this poison. Perhaps this may be true; yet the irrepressible conflict between the electric light and the midnight oil is not to be avoided even at Harvard. The use of this...
...winter the yard, and especially the trees covered with snow, never looked prettier than yesterday and the day before, yet we know very well that this snow will not last and that we are in the midst of another thaw and its consequent evils. Nature has separated the quiet city of Cambridge and the raging and restive Ohioby many miles. Nevertheless we are threatened with considerable danger when the next thaw sets in, which probably will be immediately. Every one knows what the danger is here, continual rivulets throughout the yard through which all have to wade and a likelihood...
...desperate attempt to flank McClellan. The attempt is only partially successful and results in great loss to both sides. In the meantime Magruder has made a feint in front of a porting of McClellan's army, which prevented aid being sent to Porter. The next day Lee remains quiet, only to find that the retreat of McClellan to the James has begun. Lee orders a hot pursuit and almost envelopes the Union army. At Charles City cross roads a desperate attempt is made to break through the Union lines, but fails. Finally, at Malvern Hill, under the shelter...
...athletics was laid before the board and adopted, with a statement that Harvard had done likewise. The president announced that a number of lectures would be delivered in the college this year on pedagogics, with a view of training teachers. He reported that the college was in a very quiet state, there being a good amount of study and much religious feeling...
...Ethical Philosophy. I found it long and dry." The next day he went to the chapel, where Barnwell and Emerson took part on valedictory exercises before all the scholars and a number of ladies. They were rather poor, and did but little honor to the class." Emerson was quiet in manner, studious, little given to the rude sports of his comrades. "His mind was unusually mature and independent. His letters and conversation already displayed something of originality." He owed much to his early developed, and assiduously followed, habit of wide and careful reading; and he "spent much of his time...