Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...antics of these men are many and varied. Their nature is often displayed in their boisterous actions in the street, in recitation rooms and elsewhere, but at this period of the year, they seem to believe it their special province to do whatever they can to disturb the quiet and calm of the study-room, either forgetful that the examinations are approaching, or fiendishly taking delight in making themselves a nuisance to the unfortunate persons who are compelled to lodge near them. If there is anyone now on the point of ignoring his position as a member of an organism...
...banjo club, theatres, sport in general and the triumphs of one of the speakers in society, were discussed in the compass of forty minutes. At the last topic the talkers usually stop and for the ten minutes that remain of the hour, their neighbors enjoy a long wished quiet. Meanwhile how do the lecturer's word reach the unfortunate men who sit near those I have described. Something in this fashion: - "Let me give you an example of metornymy, he is certain to get on the crew. Care should be taken in the use of personification, and - in stringing your...
...months of January and February make up the formative period of college athletics. They are dreary months and quiet ones, for the work done seems to bring no immediate reward, but withall they are perhaps the most important of any in the year. As the university knows to some sorrow...
...time between Thanksgiving and the Christmas recess is generally considered dull in the athletic world. But in a quiet way during the late fall there has been much hard work done in the gymnasium and out, and the general interest has been creditable to Harvard muscle. The floor of the gymnasium has been thronged with the active tumblers, under the careful instruction of Mr. Lathrop. The class crews have all made a good start in the winter training and are rowing with full crews, many new men being attracted by the possibility of vacant seats in their respective boats. Neither...
...returned to Boston, and went into the flour trade under the firm name of Apthorp & Greenleaf. The firm failed in 1830, whereupon the young Greenleaf went to live with his father in the town of Quincy. He never entered business to any great extent again, but lived a very quiet life, rarely mingling in society, but spending his time in study and in the cultivation of his garden. He was very poor, but his father and his aunt, Mrs. Daniel Greenleaf, were people of means. At their death he received a small fortune...