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Word: quiets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Though quiet and unassuming in his bearing the deceased had formed a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Among them his kindly manners, industrious habits, and upright character will long be remembered. For the most part he had earned his way through college. On this account his death appears all the more touching, and the University as well as the bereaved family, is called upon to mourn the loss of a promising student and loyal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Obituary. | 6/19/1893 | See Source »

...that it presents well and clearly, though at somewhat tedious length, a great though inevitable danger into which we have come through the tremendous growth of the University in late years, that danger being that as our numbers increase we gradually lose that flue "Harvard spirit" of quiet and sober gentlemanliness for which Harvard men have always been noted. "My Dryad" is a short poem by P. H. Savage. It is not especially good. A long and cleverly managed article is J. R. Oliver's study of Maurice Maetterlink, a young Belgian writer, The article is abundantly stocked with quotations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Monthly. | 6/5/1893 | See Source »

...undergraduate rule which during the past few months the managers and captains of the Yale Athletic teams have been endeavoring to put in force, will be finally dropped. For two months, owing to a compromise between the supporters of the rule and their opponents, the matter has been quiet. A committee of twelve representative men of the university was appointed to draw up new constitutions and report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale's Undergraduate Rule. | 6/5/1893 | See Source »

...Speaking Aloud" during the first part of the second half year. There are very few restrictions paced upon his office, so we may hope for a course next year somewhat the same as one just ended. It will be voluntary as before and held only during the more quiet months, probably from December until the Easter recess. The character of the course will not be a definite one, at least not so far as to follow out a fixed line of thought. It is to be a series of informal talks conducted on a plan and with topics very similar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/23/1893 | See Source »

Percy Hayes Taylor '86 died of typhoid fever in Cambridge yesterday afternoon. Since he graduated from college he has studied at times in the Graduate School and has done more or less tutoring in the modern languages. His quiet manner and his earnestness in his work won him the respect of all who knew him. The funeral will be held at St. John's Memorial Chapel tomorrow at 2 p. m. The burial will be at Baltimore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Obituary. | 5/23/1893 | See Source »

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