Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...common saying that "life is a struggle." Surely no one appreciates this more than the undergraduate, who when the torments of the class-room are over for the time, has field to his room for a quiet smoke or an hour's study, and is interrupted first, by the dark-skinned man with the earrings and silk handkerchief knotted around his throat. He knocks softly, and entering mysteriously, informs you that he has just arrived from Havana on the steamer, and has, with infinite pains and danger succeeded in smuggling a few thousand cigars, which he happens to have...
...results of such boorishness attached alone to the men who took part in the affair, but the misfortune of the whole matter lies in the fact that the good name and repute of Harvard must suffer. Even the man who, filled with disgust, must sit in quiet while the performance is going on, feels that he too will be held responsible by the outside world from the mere fact that he belongs to the college where the affair takes place...
...serene at Amherst. Our reason for drawing this conclusion is the opening sentence of an editorial in the last Student. "The college year at Amherst so far has been characterized by perfect quiet." After reading through a few melancholy sentences about the absence of tin horns and other attendant instruments of rejoicing, we come to the main-spring which actuates the feeling of enforced quiet. "The freshman chirrups to his fellow freshmen, and carries a cane as the spirit moves him. Though he is small there is no fear in his soul. The days are quiet, and the nights...
...wants that a national university could not supply. The small colleges are usually less expensive than the large. Men whose means are limited discover in these institutions the facilities which are suited to their needs; while those who shun excitement find in the same places the calm and the quiet so favorable to meditation and research. It must be apparent that, were the proposed plan carried out, the usefulness of such colleges would be seriously impaired. If the government assumes to educate, it puts an end to private benevolence; and, in building a new structure, it undermines...
...that city is the largest in the country it would be the most desirable city for such an institution, and hinges the whole question upon the relative merits of a location in a city and one in a small town. He combats the idea that a university needs quiet and removal from the excitements and activities of a throng by saying "that as this is a practical age, and as the object of education is to fit young men for the duties and responsibilities of practical life, the greatest advantages exist in a large town. "The very atmosphere inspires with...