Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...students who are struggling to put themselves through the different departments of the University would astonish outsiders and would, for that matter, surprise most Harvard men. We do not refer to the scholarships, the loan fund, and the like, the benefit of which is well-known; but to the quiet work done by individuals for those who are seen to be in need of help. Wealthy men here, not generally given the reputation of having concern for their fellow-students, have been known time and again to give large sums for men whom they had seen about them...
...Exeter Academy, entering Harvard in the autumn. Throughout his course at Harvard he took excellent stand, paying especial attention to the classics and to history. At graduation he received honorable mention in Greek and in history, and among the commencement parts was assigned a disquisition. Howe led a thoroughly quiet, studious life at Cambridge and on that account was never prominent in a social way, but he was greatly beloved by his friends, of whom he had many in his class at Exeter and at Harvard...
...boys are a most interesting and attractive set of youngsters. At first it was very difficult to keep them quiet a moment, but gradually as a result of military drill and attempted but unsuccessful military discipline, the boys are beginning to be more quiet and well...
...council learned the true state of affairs, they commended him and made him a present, which Zeno forbade him to accept. Cleanthes was different from most of the philosophers of that time, in that he did not care for fanciful syllogisms and high sounding logic, but he was a quiet man who did a good deal of thinking. He was known among his contemporaries as "The Ass." His biographer, after enumerating all his stupidities, ends his account rather curiously by saying, "he left many beautiful books...
...also to the minds of students, and better that a little more should be paid for the privileges of the hall than that the minds should be disregarded. The general table system, with its hustle, dirt, and promiscuousness, is not, to say the least, the best means to promote quiet and refined gentlemanliness. Club tables, and nothing but club tables, ought to be had throughout the hall. Other arrangements may be tolerated as make-shifts, and indeed we see no other course open at present, but let it be clearly understood that they are make-shifts and not established institutions...