Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thing more, as to the "hic jacet." Is not this last attack the best way to stir up a real old-fashioned theatre party? If the custom was dead, why revive it again by trying to turn a quiet theatre party of forty fellows into a noisy revel of a whole class...
...body of upper class men, the HERALD considers it of the utmost importance for the general welfare of the college that the harmful custom of freshman theatre-going be totally abolished. Of course, if any party of freshmen, however large, chooses to visit the theatre and act in a quiet and gentlemanly manner, it is a matter that, under ordinary circumstances, would concern these freshmen alone. But in the present case other considerations necessarily arose. It is but a short time since the last freshman theatre party occurred. In many respects the party of Thursday night looked like an attempt...
...lacrosse - the national game of Canada - is steadily increasing. In the city and vicinity there are a number of excellent clubs; and Princeton, Harvard, Columbia and N. Y. U. have very fair teams. As yet the game is comparatively unknown to Americans, but those who desire an afternoon's quiet enjoyment, will find it well worth the trouble to witness a match. The Caughnaroago Indians have lately commenced a tour through the United States, which will probably make the game much more familiar than it now is. A swift-runner of medium build will, with a little practice, make...
...Keep quiet about any visit to the seaside unless you have rescued fair female seminary girls from drowning - Howe street acquaintances preferred...
...York Tribune correspondent at New London thus speaks of the place : "This quiet, staid and eminently respectable old town utterly refuses to allow its pulse to be hastened a single beat by the agitations of college rivalries. The ancient mariners who haunt the wharves vary their brilliant flashes of expectoration with languid converse about the oarsmen, always ending with the contemptuous query, "What could them college chaps do in a whaleboat for a ten-mile pull in the teeth of a gale o' wind?" A few shop-keepers with unwonted enterprise have hung out the blue and white; fresh store...