Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amount of expression a woman can put into her elbow and fore-arm; she begins by leaning over and making a commonplace remark and then dodges back seemingly shocked that she has touched your sleeve; next time she stays a little longer, and if you remain perfectly quiet presses your arm a bit, and if you remain passive she gradually becomes confidential and allows you to support her arm and shoulder and then half her weight, and finally your arm and her shoulder and elbow become so well acquainted that they exchange frequent visits without any formality whatever, and when...
...Cambridge University the girl students are taken in carriages from their halls of residence to the class-room. While there they attend strictly to their own business, and the young men are thoroughly respectful and quiet. The lecture over, the girls take to their carriages again. And the skies do not fall...
...festive penny-a-liner of the Post, who delights in expatiating on the "bumptiousness" of college students, must lament over the present quiet and lamb-like behavior universally displayed by collegians. We pity the poor man and vainly wonder to what occupation he has turned his marked talents to gain a livelihood. He, alas, has missed one beautiful opportunity. We refer to the recent hazing affair at Trinity, which he suffered to pass by unnoticed, and at which he might have hurled, with great effect, the bolts of anathema from his elevated and important seat, and, by a vigorous...
WILLIAMSTOWN, April 18, 1882. Williamstown, like Nature, assumes a new aspect with the advent of spring, and the dull, quiet place of a few weeks ago now teems with life and activity...
...some sort; inter-collegiate athletic contests, oratorical contests, racing, and all sorts of rivalries with other colleges, are his very existence. But it is well known that a novice always has the crudest tastes, and it takes long to acquire refinement and the art of extracting delicate pleasure from quiet sports. It is admittedly so with yachting and canoeing. But a canoe club of the right sort would be a glorious thing for old Harvard...