Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking wild escape the Vagabond turned up into the net of quiet which stretches between the river and Massachusetts avenue. Until sundown he paced their pleasant and unchanging lengths, and absorbed in reflection forgot the pricking of spring...
Harvard's House Plan and Tutorial system were subjected to severe criticism in the quiet town of Andover this week by the youthful president of the University of Chicago Robert Maynard Hutchins. "Since President Eliot gave the country the elective system, not one single useable idea has emanated from New England," he said. And added, "Now either New England must regain its former leadership in the American educational field, or it must become an excrescence." Besides displaying a complete lack of understanding of the institutions originated in the administration of President Lowell, the visitor from the West appeared worried about...
Cambridge and Harvard have gone to bed. The Vagabond is hunched wearily in his dusty niche high on the silent rafters of Memorial Hall. The strange quiet of early morning is so intense that it pulsates sonorously, and by degrees his tired body seems to be dissolved into the infinite darkness and silence lying round about like a thick, suffocating blanket...
...even his Manhattan publishers, seemed to know where he was. Then he had stepped off the 20th Century Limited in Chicago, gone straight to a new dormitory at the south edge of the University campus with his three well-worn suitcases. He was using Chicago as a quiet base at which to prepare for his main mission in the U. S., the delivery of Cornell University's Messenger Lectures for 1934. Besides his ''Expanding Universe" talk he gave Chicago, while he was there, his more metaphysical lecture, "Science and Experience." He dined with President & Mrs. Hutchins...
Conductor Serge Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony had to pause during Tschaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, one night last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, while Conductor Koussevitzky asked the audience to sit down, be quiet. The billows of smoke that were gushing out on the stage and swirling among the imperturbable musicians, were only from a fire in a rubbish chute, which was quickly controlled. When a friend congratulated Koussevitzky not only for averting a panic but for keeping his tempo precise and unhurried through it all, Koussevitzky answered: "Ah! But tempo is tempo and tranquillity is tranquillity...