Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have exploited as an undergraduate, has been made to feel that his own world has vanished, that he is an outsider; that he is no longer wanted. And whatever pleasure he may try to derive that the wasteful frivolity of his youth can yet be assuaged through quiet, reflective reading in Widener's pastures, is slowly smothered in a red tape vaster than any he encountered in student days. But it is rather the privilege of participating again in the life of the university than participation itself which the alumnus would find valuable...
...students have been led to expect in the Houses. Until that happy day, the University may follow one of two roads. It may lag behind, play safe, and cling to its 'scutcheen. Or it may take the lead in teaching its students temperance by allowing them to indulge in quiet, legal drinking with their meals. One is inclined to hope that yesterday's manifesto will not commit the University to the former path...
...customs, which have long been out of recognition, are those in the latter part of this document which, when observed, must have lent a quiet dignity to the Freshman's conduct. The first of these made the Yard essentially quiet as it forbade calling "up or down, to or from, any chamber in the College." The second kept the popular Freshman continually jumping up from his desk to receive visitors, with the exception of studying time, as it declared that when anyone knocked at the Freshman's door "he shall immediately open the door without enquiring who is there...
...which belonged to people who had bought the warehouse receipts. He sold some of the subsidiaries, paid off $11,000,000 of debts, bought back most of his whiskey. But around his clubs when asked about his whiskey business, Seton Porter usually made a sour face, and did a quiet but extraordinarily able job of corporate management...
...Saturday evenings or on Sundays the filters themselves can be cleaned by forcing the water back through them. Some waste escapes through the over flow gutters, which are closed, however, during meets to assure a quiet surface...